In this first-hand account of the earliest days of settlement in the Canadian West, William Wallace conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courage that was needed to make a fresh start in a strange ...
Metis and the Medicine Line is a sprawling, ambitious look at how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous lands. It is also an intimate story ...
This fifth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains a broad range of articles spanning the 1870s to the present and examines the mostly unexplored place of women in the history of the ...
"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched. " -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning
"Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's ...
Surviving for over five hundred years, the Hutterites have created the world’s most successful communal society.
In the past, the colony was an "ark," isolated from the secular world and from the society ...
When Canadians think of Saskatchewan—if they think of it at all—they think "flat and boring," a place to drive through or fly over, a gap between the bigger cities to the east and west.
Yet thanks ...
Relive the romance of the fur trade.
With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade. ...
Who are these trailblazers, these mavericks and innovators?
They are survivors, who are rich in customs and traditions. They are prosperous, and they are diverse--leading the world on many fronts.
Who ...
This fourth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains fifteen articles examining the rich history of business and early industry in Canada's Prairie Provinces prior to the Great Depression. ...