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In this volume, Nelson Wiseman skilfully describes the history of the New Democratic Party in Manitoba, tracing the roots of the social democratic movement to the years of mass immigration and soci

We may be lost but we are never alone. That is the message to be found in Brenda Hasiuk’s new collection of short stories, Boy Lost in Wild.

In the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands.

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.

Welcome to Blind Crescent, where everyone is watching, but nobody sees a thing.

Harlan always knew he was special, that he was different from other folk. He figured he'd found his calling when he joined the carnival.

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.