“The people of the west coast of Vancouver Island used to be called Nootka by Europeans. We know ourselves as Nuu-chah-nulth, which can be translated as “along the mountains” and refers to our traditional ...

Philip Resnick explores what makes B. C. stand apart as a region of
Canada. He looks at the views of politicians, opinion-makers, and
ordinary British Columbians on the challenges posed by Quebec
nationalism, ...

Frequently dismissed as a ‘nature poet’ and an ‘Indian Princess’ E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who ...

Mackey introduces the entrepreneurs who forged this important link between Montreal and the nation’s interior and chronicles the course of their industry, correcting previous misinterpretations. He ...

She is a complex novel in poetry and prose poetry, crafted with visual form and eloquent language. Penelope-Marie Lancet, an immigrant from Trinidad who lives in Calgary, yearns for a child to the point ...

One of the great untold Canadian military stories revolves around the eastern seaport of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Guardian of the Gulf offers a vivid and long overdue account of Sydney harbour’s role, and ...

French settlers distanced the indigenous people and flora and fauna to create a landscape that by the mid-eighteenth century had become recognizably European. British industrialists and landowners attempted ...

Reprinted for a new audience, this is the gripping story of Acadia torn by civil strife in its infancy, the people involved and the reasons for the struggle.