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Flemingdon Park
No Mean Neighbourhood
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Since Eric Arthur’s 1964 publication of Toronto, No Mean City, no book has provided such deep insight into a community as Flemingdon Park, No Mean Neighbourhood. From prehistory to the arrival of Indigenous peoples, European settlers, the simple...
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Old Town Victoria
Walk Through Time
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For over a decade, local historian and walking tour guide Dave Mason has been uncovering the rich architectural and cultural heritage of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. This guidebook brings together years of meticulous research—rooted in...
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The Broken Furrow
The Tale of a Welsh Farmer in Canada
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If a plough strikes a rock, the furrow—the trench in the earth made by the plough—is broken. The otherwise straight line is disrupted, an imperfection you can’t hide. In competition ploughing, a broken furrow is catastrophic. From his childhood...
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Mennonite to Mainstream
Abandoning the Old Colony and Growing Up in Rural Canada
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In a family history that stretches back five hundred years, Judy introduces readers to life under Old Colony Mennonite rules as experienced by her parents and grandparents in rural Canada and Mexico. Despite this history, it took Judy’s family...
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Little Temple on the Prairie
A History of the Manitoba Buddhist Temple
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During World War II, displaced Japanese Canadians arrived in Manitoba, having lost everything to government-ordered internment and forced exile. Scattered across rural farms, they faced harsh conditions, deep isolation, and the daunting task of...
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Protecting the Ontario Niagara Escarpment
Environmental Activism and Goverment Stewardship
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Protecting the Ontario Niagara Escarpment explores the intersection of politics and conservation, business and public interests, and government and not-for-profit organizations over more than six decades to protect what is today a UNESCO World...
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Venus Passing
The Great War and the Death of Canadian Romance
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Historians have written a great deal about the military aspects of Canada’s Great War but little about the most intimate dimension of Canada’s wartime experience: heterosexual romance. Did romance influence a man’s decision to go to war or his...
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The McNair-Flemming Years, Volume 2
A Public Record of Uncertain Times, New Brunswick 1930-1960
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The McNair-Flemming Years Volume 2, relates a shift of influence by the print media. Newspaper reporting of peacetime events had always expressed a known degree of partisan views, but these suddenly became toxic. The result was a transition of...
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Hromada: The Changing Ukrainian Community in Saskatchewan
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The story of any immigrant community, at its core, depicts the changing meaning of home and identity - the home and identity you leave behind; those which you build on new shores, in new places, in new ways. How any change to that home and...
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Wings over the Sahtu
The North-Wright Air Story
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Over 100 years ago, during aviation's dawn in the unforgiving Canadian Arctic, gutsy pilots and ingenious mechanics flew a pair of WWI-vintage airplanes further north than anyone before.They proved that the airplane would transform frontier life...
