Books

For many politicians and developers, "to make something" of the North came to mean thinking of the North as an empty hinterland waiting to be exploited, and today, hydroelectric projects, mining, milling, pulp and paper, and other industries have changed much of the North beyond recognition.

Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view "from the ground" of the developments in 1869 and 1870 that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to North and South America. Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, and census reports, Jonas Thor offers a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.

In the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from present-day Ukraine to the North American grasslands. In Hidden Worlds, Royden Loewen illuminates the ways they adapted to the New World, including new concepts of social boundary and community, and new strategies of land ownership and legacy.

Written in original Cree text with a full English translation, They Knew both Sides of Medicine also includes an introduction discussing the historical background of the narrative and its style and rhetorical structure, as well as a complete Cree-English glossary.

Mac Runciman: A Life in the Grain Trade tells the story of how Runciman rose through the ranks of the UGG to play a central role in the fierce debates over the modernization of grain handling, subsidized freight rates, and the role of The Canadian Wheat Board.