These beautifully crafted essays will delight and provoke in their exploration of how humans have engaged with the Canadian environment and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada. Tracing ...

Two centuries ago, many hundreds of Iroquois left home without leaving behind their ways of life. Recruited to man the large canoes that transported trade goods and animal pelts from and to Montréal, ...

Revealing how Canada’s first prime minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate ...

Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural ...

Part memoir, part history, Being Chinese in Canada explores systemic discrimination against the Chinese Canadian community and the effects of the redress movement.

Drawing on more than 60 interviews with survivors, hundreds of case files from Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and other archival documents, this book presents a portrait of the daily struggles of Holocaust ...

In May/June 1919, more than 30,000 workers walked off the job in Winnipeg, MB. One hundred years later, the Winnipeg General Strike remains one of the most significant events in Canadian history. This ...

Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small-scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. ...

Stalin’s Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. Wilson T. Bell explores a diverse array of issues, including ...

July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada’s Confederation – the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ...