So begins this collection of Stéphane Dion’s speeches from 1996 to 1998. Organized around four central themes, Straight Talk shows the breadth and strength of Dion’s convictions. Dion believes that ...

The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biography of a man
who played a key role in the events which marked the political, social,
and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of ...

In this collection of essays marking the centenary of Pearson’s birth, eighteen leading academics, journalists, public servants, and politicians recreate and reassess Pearson’s premiership from 1963 ...

This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of
Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city — Williams
Lake — at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss
analyses ...

Although Judith McKenzie deals with Jewett’s childhood and university years, much of this insightful story is devoted to her public life as a Member of Parliament for the federal Liberal Party and the ...

All peoples living in Canada deserve to have a voice in its history. How and why did each people come to Canada? Where did the immigrants and their descendants settle? What kind of lives did they build ...

In The Struggle for Quebec Young updates this work, treating new developments and making his analysis accessible to a wider Audience. He describes the prelude to the 1995 referendum campaign, as well ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...