Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God’s Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, ...

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Painting the Maple explores the critical interplay of race
and gender in shaping Canadian culture, history, politics and health
care. These interdisciplinary essays draw on feminist, postcolonial,
and ...

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 ...

Consisting of a Series of stories, events, and episodes, the book highlights shifting patterns, attitudes, and perspectives toward women in the Prairies. One of Carter’s overarching themes is that women ...

Nellie McClung. Her story was her faith. Her work, as politician, author and feminist reformer of the first half of this century, makes Nellie McClung: No Small Legacy a compelling and inspiring biography. ...

Joan Ryan and her research team have carefully documented Dogrib traditional justice as it has been practised over the past century. Relying upon information received from the elders of Lac La Martre, ...

The first work devoted exclusively to Acadians in Nova Scotia, this book presents a thorough study of Acadian history from the earliest days of French settlement to present-day Acadian communities. Authors ...