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For a Better World

The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt

James Naylor (Editor), Rhonda L. Hinther (Editor), Jim Mochoruk (Editor)

Canada’s most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined conversations around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. For a Better World interrogates types of commemoration, current legacies of the Strike, and its ongoing influence.

Undressed Toronto

From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850–1935

Dale Barbour (Author)

Undressed Toronto challenges assumptions about class, the urban environment, and the presentation of the naked body in five Toronto environments.

Settler City Limits

Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West

Heather Dorries (Editor), Robert Henry (Editor), David Hugill (Editor) + others

While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler colonialism.

A Diminished Roar

Winnipeg in the 1920s

Jim Blanchard (Author)

The third instalment in Jim Blanchard’s popular history of early Winnipeg, A Diminished Roar guides readers through the prairie city in 1920s, a decade of political and social turmoil.

Rooster Town

The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961

Evelyn Peters (Author), Matthew Stock (Author), Adrian Werner (Author)

Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

The North End Revisited

Photographs by John Paskievich

John Paskievich (Author), Stephen Osborne (Introduction), George Melnyk (Text) + others

Cities and the people who live in them are enduring subjects of photography. Winnipeg’s North End is one of North America’s iconic neighbourhoods, a place where the city’s unique character and politics have been forged.

Imagining Winnipeg

History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote

Esyllt W. Jones (Author)

In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city’s pre-eminent commercial photographer. In Imagining Winnipeg, historian Esyllt W. Jones takes us beyond the iconic to reveal the complex artist behind the lens.

Winnipeg's Great War

A City Comes of Age

Jim Blanchard (Author)

Winnipeg’s Great War picks up in 1914, just as the city is regrouping after a brief economic downturn. Using letters, diaries, and newspaper reports, Jim Blanchard brings us into the homes and public offices of Winnipeg and its citizens to illustrate the profound effect the war had on every aspect of the city.

Prairie Metropolis

New Essays on Winnipeg Social History

Esyllt W. Jones (Editor), Gerald Friesen (Editor)

Prairie Metropolis brings together some of the best new graduate research on the history of Winnipeg and makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of the city between 1900 and the 1980s. The essays place Winnipeg’s experiences in national and international contexts.

The North End

Photographs by John Paskievich

John Paskievich (Author), Stephen Osborne (Introduction)

Jim Blanchard (Author)