Aki-wayn-zih

Aki-wayn-zih is one man's story of growing up in the hunting and gathering society of the Ojibways and surviving the residential school system, woven together with traditional legends in their original language. A story about the land and its relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginnin...

Phoenix

The life and loves of Norman Bethune - Canadian doctor and activist and battlefield surgeon in China during the Japanese invasion of the 1930s.

In the eye of the wind

The early married life of foreign nationals in Japan in the years leading up to the Second World War.

Tracings of gerald le dain's life in the law

The life and work of a leading Canadian legal academic, university administrator, law reformer, and judge.

In search of r.b. bennett

No Canadian prime minister has a legacy as uncertain as that of R.B. Bennett (1870-1947). Leader of the country during the worst years of the Great Depression, Bennett's fortune and ascension to the British House of Lords distanced him from the Canadian people during his lifetime, while his buria...

Ryszard kapuscinski

In the first posthumous monograph on Ryszard Kapuściński’s life and work, Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek confront the mixed reception of the writer’s use of the Polish concept of literary reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose, and identify this tension as the dr...

The fundamental things apply

"Compromise has remained a good thing in the mosaic called Canada, contributing indirectly and in its own mysterious way to whatever good humour, proportion, tolerance, judgment, and civility we have achieved. When such fundamental things apply, we can learn more about how best to live together, ...

The oil has not run dry

A Catholic theologian - praised by some and denounced by others - tells the story of his involvement in the renewal of the Catholic Church.

After auschwitz

Born into privilege in Hungary, Hermann Gruenwald's idyllic childhood came to an end in 1944 when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz. During his incarceration, Gruenwald's instinct for survival helped him live through three concentration camps. In After Auschwitz he recounts his story not o...

The love queen of malabar

An astonishing adventure into the heart of one of India's most controversial writers.

Building bridges

A life devoted to social reconciliation and public understanding.

Onward, dear boys

The compelling account of a Swiss Protestant family that immigrated to Montreal and sent their four sons to fight for their new country in the First World War.

The children's senator

An inspiring account of Landon Pearson's powerful and transformative vision for an architecture of children's rights through sixty years of advocacy, leadership, and mentorship.

Teaching anticommunism

Fred C. Schwarz (1913–2009) was an Australian-born medical doctor and evangelical preacher who settled in the United States in the early 1950s, where he founded the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. In Teaching Anticommunism Hubert Villeneuve sheds light on Schwarz's fascinating career and organi...

Lord mansfield

The life and times of the great eighteenth-century judge and statesman, whose legacy continues to influence Anglo-American law and society.

Sir william c. macdonald

Sir William Macdonald (1831-1917) is the father of the Canadian tobacco industry and one of the country's foremost educational philanthropists. His contributions to McGill University transformed it into one of the world's foremost research and teaching institutions. William Fong's biography place...

Call of empire

A treasure trove of original correspondence reveals the experiences of four generations of a Scottish family in the service of the East India Company.

The permanent nature of everything

A childhood of freedom and risk, of navigating the shoals of a combative family, and reaching out for an understanding of the world.

T.a. crerar

T.A. Crerar's career as a federal politician spanned a period of tremendous change in Canada. In public life from 1917 to 1966, he served under prime ministers Borden, King, St Laurent, and Pearson. The only politician to serve in two wartime cabinets, Crerar participated in some of the major pol...

Percy erskine nobbs

Pauline jewett

Pauline Jewett is the compelling story of an important and dynamic Canadian whose proposals for peace, equality, and justice in the context of a strong and independent Canada were an important influence on the Canadian political scene in the 1970s and 1980s.

Fear's folly/(les demi-civilises)

Superbly rendered by the late John Glassco, Harvey's controversial work is presented in its true cultural and social setting. First published in 1934, this novel satirizing the bourgeois élite and the suffocating rule of the Catholic clergy created a furor in Quebec.

Thomas d'arcy mcgee, volume 2

After a tumultuous career as a revolutionary in Ireland and an ultra-conservative Catholic in the United States, Thomas D'Arcy McGee moved to Canada in 1857, where he became a force for moderation and the leading Irish Canadian politician in the country. Determined that Canada should avoid the et...

Steering the course

With the frankness and clarity of someone whose life has been lived to the full, Sam Hughes tells the story of that life, from his early years in Victoria, BC - his father was a chief engineer at Canadian Northern Railway - to his many years on the bench in Ontario as a Supreme Court judge.

Margaret addison

As dean of Annesley Hall residence at Victoria University from its founding in 1903 until 1931, Margaret Addison set the tone for university women during the period when college education for women changed from the unusual to the accepted. Jean O'Grady describes her complex personality B revealed...

As though life mattered

In Montreal in the 1920s and 1930s, a small group of radical young writers Leo Kennedy, Frank Scott, A.M. Klein, and A.J.M. Smith transformed Canadian poetry with enthusiasm, talent, and the creation of a modern alternative press.

Ahead of his time

This is the first English translation of Professor Bünning's biography of the outstanding 19th century German plant physiologist, Wilhelm Pfeffer who, one hundred years ago, anticipated much that modern-day biologists and botanists have come to accept.

The sterling public servant

In Sylvia Ostry: A Global Tribute professional colleagues and friends pay homage to a remarkable woman and her enormous span of activities, both academic and governmental. Ostry's interests and scholarly writings range from labour economics to development and growth, to consumer protection, exter...

Nuclear pursuits

Nuclear Pursuits is the scientific biography of Wilfrid Bennett Lewis, the physicist who dominated nuclear research and the development of nuclear power in Canada for nearly three decades, from the end of World War II until his retirement in 1973. The development of the CANDU reactor was his most...

The life of the reverend george trosse

Bilingual being

An intimate memoir of a bilingual childhood in Quebec at mid-century that shows how language can reshape a life after trauma.

Carol shields and the extra-ordinary

Claiming the "ordinary" and "extra-ordinary" as critical categories, contributors to this volume explore the philosophical and literary import of Carol Shields's writing, its complex play with genre and narrative technique, its re-valuing of domesticity and gendered perspective, and the social cr...

A.b. simpson and the making of modern evangelicalism

Understanding the formation of conservative evangelical identity, through the life of one of its leading figures.

My life for the book

The life and times of Russia's leading pre-Revolutionary book publisher.

The architecture of andrew thomas taylor

How Andrew Thomas Taylor advanced the quality of architecture in Canada.

George cartwright’s the labrador companion

A newly discovered manuscript that expands our knowledge of the eastern coast of Canada’s Labrador peninsula.

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume i, 1768-1773

Fanny Burney was best known in her own time as the author of Evilina and other novels. Her modern reputation, however, rests primarily on her extensive journals and letters. The third of eleven children of Charles Burney, an eminent musician, author, and composer, she began keeping a journal of h...

Confessions of a young man

Our geographic mosaic

Russian émigrés in the intellectual and literary life of inter-war france

An encyclopedic bibliography of material published in the cultural exchange between French intellectuals and Russian exiles who fled the Soviet Union.

Life and time of sir alexander tilloch galt

Walter gordon and the rise of canadian nationalism

From the 1950s to the 1970s Walter Gordon was the voice of English Canadian nationalism, first as chair of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects, then as a minister in Lester B. Pearson's cabinet, and finally as founder and honorary chair of the Committee for an Independent Canada. ...

O.d. skelton

A pioneering analysis of Skelton's passionate foreign policy career.

Up and to the right

The first-ever look at one of Canada's greatest growth investors and champions of entrepreneurship.

Reinhold niebuhr

During a lifetime of active involvement in American political life, Reinhold Niebuhr did much good and a certain amount of mischief. Both the good and the mischief are traceable to the same source: his faith. For too long, Niebuhr has been misrepresented by the political theorists and the histori...

Pietro bembo

Carol Kidwell's lavishly illustrated book is the first full-length biography of Renaissance Cardinal Pietro Bembo. Her extensive use of translations from Bembo's 2,600 letters, including exchanges of love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, provide a picture of personal life in the brilliant, turbulent...

Orthodoxy and enlightenment

Employing an interdisciplinary approach that gives equal consideration to Campbell's secular and religious writings, Jeffrey Suderman argues that Campbell used the critical tools of the Enlightenment to defend an orthodox Christian faith. This conclusion

Ingmar bergman

Ingmar Bergman has long been revered as a master craftsman of cinema, whose works are intensely revealing of himself while resonating powerfully with his audience. This book explores how Bergman achieves this cinematic magic through specific choices in the use of film language and the texturing a...

Champlain

To make a difference

A story about building a meaningful life through family, work, and community.

King edward ii

Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence. This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by ...

Robert edwards holloway

At the young age of twenty-four Robert Edwards Holloway, a British schoolmaster, became principal of the Wesleyan Academy in St John's. During his thirty-year tenure he dramatically changed the direction of the school that later became the Methodist College. Ruby Gough's biography of Holloway and...

Robert laird borden, vol ii

The education of a canadian

This captivating memoir by one of Canada's preeminent and honoured scholars records a life devoted to understanding both the history and destiny of world communism. It also reveals a life lived at the heart of the Soviet experiment, especially as it was tried and tested in Czechoslovakia. The wor...

The enterprising admiral

The present study analyses in detail the fortune of a single naval officer, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, whose principal wealth came from prize money: the capture of enemy vessels in wartime.

Chief justice william johnstone ritchie

Genre/trope/gender

Northrop Frye embellishes the theory of genre in "Henry James and the Comedy of the Occult." In "The Power of Postmodern Irony," Linda Hutcheon furthers her reputation as a theorist of contemporary culture, and Shirley Neuman investigates gender in writing and reading in "Autobiography, Mothers' ...

Shadow woman

The remarkable career of the American woman who became the world's first female master of Chinese shadow theatre.

Popper’s legacy

Karl Popper has had an extraordinary influence on scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the "open society." Popper's Leg...

William lyon mackenzie

This edition marks the first appearance of this controversial biography in its original form, seventy years after its completion.

The last of the free enterprisers

Georges and pauline vanier

Few figures have had as lasting an influence on Canadian institutions, history, politics, and culture as Georges and Pauline Vanier. Georges (1888-1967), a decorated military officer, became a professional diplomat, the first Canadian ambassador to France, and the first French-Canadian governor g...

Cultiver la différence

A story about building a meaningful life through family, work, and community.

Routines and orgies

The biography of value investor Peter Cundill - marathon runner, world-traveler, philosopher, cultural enthusiast, and playboy.

Autobiographical writings

The theatricality of robert lepage

Since the 1980s, multimedia and new technologies have had a great impact on theatre, allowing performance to establish its own language of communication with the audience independent of the written text. Robert Lepage is one of the pioneers and main exponents of mixed-media performance, internati...

The life of themistocles

Discovering confederation

A scholar's appreciation of the magnificent achievement that is the Canadian political constitution.

A gentleman of pleasure

John Glassco (1909-1981) holds a unique position in Canadian letters and a somewhat notorious reputation throughout the world. He is best known for his Memoirs of Montparnasse, the controversial chronicle of his youthful adventures and encounters with celebrities in the Paris of James Joyce, Gert...

Sean o'casey

Se?O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. In critical works that include his Dublin Trilogy - The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars - he portrayed the traumatic birth of a nation and delved into the Irish national character. Christopher Murray's Se?...

Mr charlotte brontë

Few people seeking to avoid the glare of publicity have had more of it turned on them than Charlotte Brontë's husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls. Some critics have implied that he not only put a stop to her writing but might even have inadvertently caused her death.

Expect miracles

David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational ...

William r. mcintyre

William R. McIntyre is the first biography of a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada to appear since the entrenchment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. McIntyre played a key role at a critical time in Canadian constitutional history, as the Bench sought to give the new Cha...

You're not dead until you're forgotten

The irreverent and insightful story of Canada's unknown movie mogul.

Sun in winter

In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war. While insanity raged throughout Europe she struggled to keep herself and her two small children going in a strange new home. Sun in Winter captures her keen interest in life in Canada and draws...

Against the current

A Polish citizen of Belarusian descent, Boris Ragula escaped German internment during World War II only to find on his return to Belarus that it had fallen under the control of Soviet totalitarianism. He was imprisoned by the Communist secret police but finally escaped with his family to Belgium....

In the eye of the china storm

"The proudest day of my life was October 1, 1950. I marched with seeming multitudes across Tiananmen Square, exalting in China's independence from foreign controls. As the people raised their fists to Mao Zedong shouting Wansui, 'ten thousand year' - the traditional greeting for an emperor - I co...

Claude jutra

Although Claude Jutra has been widely acclaimed, there has been surprisingly little critical literature about his work. Best known as the director of Mon oncle Antoine, often considered the greatest Canadian film ever made, Jutra's career spanned almost four decades - from 1948 till his death in ...

Fred taylor

John Virtue uncovers the dynamics of a prominent Ottawa family and reveals the divergent paths of brothers E.P. and Fred Taylor. E.P. became mid-century Canada's leading industrialist, while Fred became an artist and a Communist.

The constant diplomat

The leaders and politics of the Soviet Union seen through the eyes of an experienced ambassador.

Outside the box

When poet and broadcaster Mona Gould died in 1999, she left behind thirty-eight boxes of papers. Her war poem, "This Was My Brother," was still a staple of textbooks and anthologies, yet Mona - well known in her youth - had fallen into obscurity in the 1960s. Born at the very time Mona's career w...

Behold the hero

General James Wolfe's death on 13 September 1759 at the moment of British victory over the French on the Plains of Abraham in New France instantly elevated him to the pantheon of British heroes. His courage, his glorious death, and his ability to lead the English and their American colonial breth...

Rolph scarlett

The first critical retrospective of Rolph Scarlett's extraordinary achievements.

Moi, je suis de bouctouche

Donald Savoie a grandi dans un petit village acadien et est devenu un auteur et un universitaire accompli. Ses livres ont eu un effet profond sur les politiques publiques du Canada et sur l'administration du pays. Moi, je suis de Bouctouche n'est pas seulement l'histoire de Savoie lui-même, mais ...

Nelson goodman

Although some of Nelson Goodman's views have become unfashionable or seem unorthodox, much in his work is of lasting significance. Daniel Cohnitz and Marcus Rossberg assess Goodman's contribution to philosophy, including his acceptance and critique of positivism, his defence of nominalism and phe...

Bringing art to life

In 1959, Alan Jarvis - the brilliant and charismatic director of the National Gallery of Canada - was forced to resign following a disagreement with the government over the purchase of works by European Old Masters. He never fully recovered from this dismissal, or the public humiliation that foll...

York wilson

Lela Wilson's biography is an engaging personal perspective on Wilson's career as a painter and muralist, and as an advocate for the arts in Canada. This biography also provides an insider's view of a critical, but somewhat neglected, era in the development of Canadian art.

So obstinately loyal

The biography of James Moody, a once-famous, even infamous, partisan of Britain during the American Revolutionary War.

Baking as biography

A daughter's exploration of her mother's life as revealed through her baking.

Marguerite bourgeoys and montreal, 1640-1665

St Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700), canonized in 1982, is a key figure in Canadian and religious history as a founder of Montreal and of the international order the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Montréal, one of the first uncloistered religious communiti

Blitzkrieg and jitterbugs

A young woman experiences college life amidst constant reminders of ongoing war.

Robert emmet

Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one Ireland's most romantic revolutionaries. The youngest son of Ireland's state physician, he was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin and, like many young people, was caught up in the fervour of the French Revolution. Expelled from Trinity in 1798 after invo...

Frank manning covert

Fifty Years in the Practice of Law is the engrossing autobiography of a public citizen who worked almost non-stop at a career he both loved and cherished. A power - often behind the scenes - in big business, high finance, and Liberal Party politics, Frank Manning Covert advised Pierre Trudeau to ...

Milosevic and markovic

Engrossing and beautifully written, Milosevic and Markovic is both a biography and an engaging political commentary on events in Yugoslavia and Serbia over the last two decades. Avoiding the speculation and intrigue that surrounds Milosevic, Djukic provides a clear, factual commentary that shows ...