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Jenkins never dreamed he'd live long enough to be dating again. Old folks acting like teenagers was unheard of in his parents' generation.

Capturing moments in time and nature, Carla Funk’s poems bring the world to a momentary standstill.

At the close of WW II, politicians throughout western Canada were concerned about how small prairie towns would adapt to the new technologies and society of the post-war era.

Belonging and the search for home and family are at the center of the title story, "Fatted Calf Blues." Here, a woman hitchhikes home to Alberta to see her dying father.

Endlings takes us across continents and through the long expanse of aeons to give voice to the dead.

Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers.

Imagined Homes examines two migrations of similar groups of ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union during the Cold War period.

Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canada's House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940.

New ways of thinking about literature and history have radically changed how we think about or even “define” a region like the Prairie West.

What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott? The disposal of the body of Canadian history’s most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M.

With vicious wit, K. I. Press pries open the intimacies of our lives in her collection of poetry, Exquisite Monsters.

Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World.

Welcome to the apocalypse! It was arrived . . . not with a bang, but with the white noise hum of tabloid news and the empty promise of the internet.

Les années suivant la création du Dominion du Canada en 1867, le territoire canadien connait une expansion fulgurante.

Avant l’arrivée du chemin de fer, le Canada était un immense territoire accidenté ne comptant qu’une faible densité de population largement disséminée.