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This accessible and engaging book introduces readers to key historical events, and the women who were central to them, in the struggle for women’s equality in Canada.

This book examines the real life circumstances of low-income people who are forced to live in poor housing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They're laying off teachers at your child's high school. The sex ed curriculum is right out of Father Knows Best.