Mining Country offers the stories of Canadian miners from past and present, from pre-settlement aboriginal mines to the development of Vancouver and Toronto as centres of global mining finance. |
Black Loyalists in New BrunswickThe lives of eight African Americans in colonial New Brunswick 1783-1834By Stephen DavidsonSome Black Loyalists who arrived in New Brunswick, abandoned freedom and became indentured, for guarantees of stability and security in a new, unknown land. |
While the Beatles were breaking up, John Lennon and Yoko Ono headed to Canada to stage a bed-in for peace, play a peace concert, and meet prime minister Trudeau. |
The story of Canada's workers and their unions |
Winnipeg 1919The Strikers' Own History of the General StrikeBy The Winnipeg Defence Committee, Introduction by Christo Aivalis, Edited by Norman PennerThe most important primary document from the Winnipeg General Strike now back in print with a new introduction on the occasion of the strike's 100th anniversary |
Homelessness can be ended in Canada, and in this book leading shelter operators share their experience and their proposals about how this can be done, city by city. |
The Creative City of Saint JohnEdited by Gwendolyn Davies, Edited by Peter Larocque, Edited by Christl VerduynAn extensively illustrated account of a wide range of creators and creative work — writing, painting, natural history scholarship, filmmaking — which are part of Saint John's colourful history |
Wartime in Canadian life; a new perspective on The First World War |
The best of Dianne Marshall on CBC Radio's Information Morning |