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Death So Noble

By (author) Jonathan F. Vance
Categories: History of the Americas

This book examines Canada’s collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s.  It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such ...

Literary Pluralities

Literary Pluralities is a collection of essays on the connections between literature and society in Canada, focusing on the topics of race, ethnicity, language, and cultures.

The essays explore a nexus ...

With Scarcely a Ripple

Using a prosopographical approach that combines descriptive exposition, quantitative tabulation, and structural analysis, Randy Widdis determines the geographical and social origins of migrants, the distance ...

Spuzzum

By (author) Annie York
Categories: Ethnic studies

Living on the banks of the turbulent Fraser River, the Nlaka’pamux people of Spuzzum have a long history of contact with non-aboriginal peoples. They watched as Hudson’s Bay Company employees hacked ...

The French in North America 1500-1783

By (author) W. J. Eccles
Categories: History of the Americas

This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and the West Indies, from the arrival ...

Wheel and Come Again

Edited by Kwame Dawes
Categories: Poetry

The beat and language of reggae arose from the Jamaican countryside and the sidewalks of Kingston, but they’re basic for the poets represented in Wheel and Come Again. This remains true even though ...

Last Steps To Freedom

By (author) John Boyko
Categories: History of the Americas

To understand Canada one must understand racism, for Canada was born and grew as a racist state. Race riots, segregated schools, racially-based union membership, mass deportations of innocent people, ...