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Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics.

When the Second World War broke out, Winnipeg was Canada’s fourth-largest city, home to strong class and ethnic divisions, and marked by a vibrant tradition of political protest.

Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies" examines the goals, aspirations, andchallenges met by women who sought land of their

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.

Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold.

In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a pe

Saskatchewan is the anchor and epitome of the ‘prairie’ provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest.

During the first half of the twentieth century, Winnipeg Beach proudly marketed itself as the Coney Island of the West.

When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community.

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas

The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front.When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada’s F

Italian anarchism emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century, during that country’s long and bloody unification.

Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years.

Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état.

The laws of Medieval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas.