Rose henderson

Feminism and the political left come to life in this account of an important early twentieth-century social activist.

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume ii, 1774-1777

The second volume of this critical edition of the early journals and letters of Fanny Burney brings us to the eve of her sudden fame as the author of Evelina. With the publication of each volume of this edition, the full texts of Burney's early journals and letters are, for the first time, made a...

Red travellers

Jeanne Corbin typifies the female militants of the first generation of Canadian Communists. Andrée Lévesque's powerful account of the experiences of Corbin and her female comrades reveals the essential role women played in the movement. Lévesque also shows that, despite some efforts to construct ...

Lieutenant owen william steele of the newfoundland regiment

Lieutenant Owen William Steele volunteered for the famed Newfoundland Regiment in late summer 1914. His war diary, begun as he embarked for England, relates the experiences of his regiment: training on Salisbury Plain and in Scotland, baptism of fire at Gallipoli, recuperation in Egypt, and, fina...

As affecting the fate of my absent husband

A collection of Lady Franklin's public letters offers a vital new perspective on one of the great tragedies of Victorian Britain.

A woman with demons

Kamiya Mieko, the Japanese writer, psychiatrist, professor, and mystic, was a far more complex and intriguing figure than her popular image as a philanthropic doctor for leprosy patients suggests. A Woman with Demons corrects the myths about Kamiya's life through a close reading of her major work...

Marguerite bourgeoys et montréal, 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

Hummocks

"At the margins of the floes, where their ragged edges have come into grinding contact, the ice is piled up into ridges. These are the hummocks," writes Jean Malaurie.

The teeth of time

Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Ramsay Cook were friends for nearly four decades. A passion for the intellectual life drew them together but their friendship focused more on politics once Trudeau became prime minister. In The Teeth of Time Cook reflects on his relationship with Trudeau and the tension...

Journey with no maps

Poet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.

Anthems and minstrel shows

From Montreal to New Orleans - the music and complex patriotism of the composer of "O Canada."

Faces of displacement

How emigration transformed the creative palette of a major Ukrainian writer and political figure.How emigration transformed the creative palette of a major Ukrainian writer and political figure.

Both hands

The life and times of a landmark creator of Canadian culture.

Memoirs and madness

A critical study of Leonid Andreev as a "mad literary genius."

Sir andrew macphail

Sir Andrew Macphail (1864-1938), a professor of the history of medicine at McGill University, was best-known as an essayist of international renown and founding editor of The University Magazine and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Alejandro malaspina

The thirst for knowledge and adventure have always been at the forefront of human imagination. In this engrossing tale John Kendrick takes us on a voyage across the Pacific via the Philippines, New Zealand, the infant British colony at Sydney Cove, and the Tonga Islands, chronicling the life of A...

Growing to one world

An illuminating look at the life and work of the man F.R. Scott called "the most Canadian of us all."

Margaret mcwilliams

After the First World War, newly enfranchised women in Canada worked in a variety of ways to improve the situation of women in society. Mary Kinnear's study of the career of Margaret McWilliams (1875-1952) describes one woman's contribution to the largely undocumented story of interwar feminism.

Alcides lanza

Canadian-Argentinean pianist and composer alcides lanza is internationally renowned for his avant-garde approach to percussion, electroacoustics, and music theatre in works such as eidesis II, sensors III, un mundo imaginario, and vôo. Director of the Electronic Music Studio at McGill University ...

The hand of god

A magisterial biography of a major Canadian and Quebec public intellectual.

From barrow to boothia

In 1835 the map of the arctic coast of North America was still far from complete, with unmapped gaps of 280km from Return Reef to Point Barrow in Alaska and 550km from Point Turnagain to Boothia Peninsula in the Central Canadian Arctic. The Hudson's Bay Company developed a plan to fill the gaps a...

Royal victoria hospital, 1887-1947

Roughing it in the bush or life in canada

Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to

W.a. mackintosh

The first biography of a leading Canadian economist and policy advisor.

On f.r. scott

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...

Singing from the darktime

Singing from the Darktime is a compelling picture of a rural childhood in Germany at a time when the world was about to change. By 1937 Hitler's power was beginning to penetrate the peaceful agricultural village in the Rhine Valley where S. Weilbach lived with her family. Without warning, her car...

Robert and frances flaherty

Robert Flaherty's groundbreaking Nanook of the North (1922) was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of Flaherty and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography fills in crucial background in the emergence of a document...

Phoenix

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

The life and times of andrei zhdanov, 1896-1948

In The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 Kees Boterbloem offers the first full-length biography of the man once believed to be a likely candidate to succeed Josef Stalin. In so doing he provides new insights into the Soviet political system and the question of how much power was wielded...

Charles clarke, pen and ink warrior

A compelling look at the public and private life of a nineteenth-century radical.

The changing canadian population

Informative and helpful essays that study census data regarding developments in Canadian society.

Crises and compassion

John M. Letiche started life as Ianik Letichevsky, a citizen of the newly constituted Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The son of a brilliant but dictatorial father and a loving, cultivated mother, he went on to a remarkable career as an accomplished scholar, professor of economics, and advis...

Escott reid

With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians and political scientists, this collection offers a fresh perspective on the life and career of one of the most important public intellectuals and diplomats in twentieth-century Canada, critically exploring the tensions between Reid's pro...

A woman's way through unknown labrador

In 1905 Mina Benson Hubbard became the first white woman to cross Labrador, documenting her travels in the classic A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador. This reissue, edited and fully annotated by Sherrill Grace, makes the complete work available for the first time since the original 1908 publi...

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume v, 1782-1783

A brilliant portrait of eighteenth-century English life and manners from the pen of a major British novelist.

Dal & rice

In 1914 Godfrey Davis arrived in India, a junior officer in the Indian Civil Service. By the time he reluctantly returned to England thirty years later he was a high court judge with a knighthood. Sir Godfrey fell in love with India. He sympathized with the independence movement and shared a grea...

In twilight and in dawn

An informative study of the evolution of a discipline focused through the life of one of its leading practitioners, In Twilight and in Dawn is an illuminating look at anthropological thought and practice in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century.

The writing life

A prolific author's candid and insightful look at leading figures in Canada's cultural landscape.

Benedict arnold

General, soldier, businessman, traitor: these are all words associated with the name Benedict Arnold. One of America's greatest soldiers and most reviled traitors, he was also a significant and intriguing player in Canada's history. In Benedict Arnold Barry Wilson takes a fresh look at this contr...

Marguerite bourgeoys and the congregation of notre dame, 1665-1700

Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) was canonized in 1982. Patricia Simpson goes beyond myth and hagiography to explore Bourgeoys's dream of establishing a radically new religious community of women, recounting her thirty-year struggle to obtain official recognition for the Congregation of Notre Dame.

Vasil bykau

The Soviet Union banned many of Vasil Bykau's novels, which often focus on the agonizing moral dilemmas faced by young officers during the horrors of war. Considered the best modern Belarusan writer and the last Eastern European literary dissident, Bykau (1924-2003) is referred to as the "conscie...

My life at the bar and beyond

Alex Paterson grew up in Montreal during the Duplessis era and watched the Quiet Revolution transform Quebec from a deeply religious and almost agrarian society into a modern and secular state. From the 1980 referendum to the Oka crisis, he played a critical role in the defining events of Quebec'...

Getting it done

Whether it was organizing Canada's first G-7 Summit or concluding the Free Trade agreement, Derek Burney fused politics, public policy, and diplomacy into a fine art. His tenure as chief of staff to Brian Mulroney is often cited as a model of how the Prime Minister's Office should work. As Canada...

J.w. mcconnell

J.W. McConnell (1877-1963), born to a poor farming family in Ontario, became one of the wealthiest and most powerful businessmen of his generation - in Canada and internationally.

The journals of yaakov zipper, 1950-1982

Following his death at age eighty-three, it was discovered that for over three decades Yaacov Zipper had kept a journal. Replete with compelling character sketches of many of Montreal's Jewish leaders, most of whom Zipper seems to have disliked, his diary provides a personal account of Montreal's...

The life and times of raúl prebisch, 1901-1986

Selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Economist.

Lord lyons

A biography of a man for all international crises.

Delicious mirth

Recovering the lyrical voice and remarkable literary life of James McCarroll, Canada's Irish-born poet and humorist.

Christ, god's companionship with man

This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is practised in eighty countries around the world.Presented by Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberat...

The great war as i saw it

A classic work, first published in 1922 and now back in print, presents a unique account of life at the front.

The love queen of malabar

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

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 new labrador papers of captain george cartwright

An enterprising British merchant provides instructions for living in eighteenth-century Labrador.

Why i left canada

The legendary jackrabbit johannsen

This is the story of the remarkable Norwegian-Canadian who pioneered cross-country skiing in North America. A warm and personal portrait written by his daughter, it also places Johannsen's life in the context of the milieux in which he lived, and adds an element of objectivity and clarity to the ...

The life of luigi giussani

A detailed account of the life and legacy of the founder of the Communion and Liberation movement.

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.

Back to beer ... and hockey

A personal look into a quiet man's quest to make Molson a global brewer.

Ladies, upstairs!

The intriguing memoir of a fish out of water in Pierre Trudeau's cabinet.

The early journals and letters of fanny burney: volume iii

At the beginning of 1778 twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney was an unknown. By year's end, however, she had emerged as the author of Evelina, or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World, a universally acclaimed novel which admirers ranked with the works of Fielding and Richardson.

The great scot

Une grand patron

Between composers

Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic growth over six turbulent months, and illuminate their perspectives on the devel...

They shot, he scored

The remarkable story of Eldon Rathburn, prolific Canadian composer, legendary NFB collaborator, railway enthusiast, and chronicler of his life and times.

Bethune in spain

The Spanish experience of a dedicated "doctor without borders."

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...

Sheymes

Picking up a family’s broken pieces and restoring them in a narrative that seals the gaps with memory.

A. mary f. robinson

This critical biography of A. Mary F. Robinson traces her unorthodox journey through the literary circles of London and Paris as a writer of poetry and prose, a leading member of the Anglo-French community, and a significant contributor to the cultural and literary shift from nineteenth-century V...

The making of a museum

In The Making of a Museum Judith Nasby recalls the century-long history of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre/Art Gallery of Guelph, informed by her long career as gallery director and curator. The book is beautifully illustrated with eighty images of artworks in the permanent collection, beginning...

Zygmunt bauman and the west

Zygmunt Bauman was both an outsider of Western modernity and one of its foremost interpreters. Zygmunt Bauman and the West argues that the distinctive social thought that sprung from Bauman’s lived experiences of totalitarianism and exile amounts to a sustained, sophisticated, and unappreciated p...

Statesman of the piano

Jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894–1977), Paul Robeson’s first accompanist and teacher to Oscar Peterson, came to prominence near the end of his life for his exceptional career. Statesman of the Piano makes his unpublished autobiography widely available for the first time, with commentary from histori...

Opium and empire

A close look at two infamous Scottish capitalists engaged in the opium trade.

From liberal to labour with women's suffrage, second edition

Catherine Marshall was a vital figure in the women's suffrage movement in Britain before the First World War. Using her remarkable political skills on behalf of the major non-militant organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), she built close connections with major su...

Research and reform

The untold story of a Canadian pioneer in genetics, undergraduate science education, and the establishment of Medicare.

Frank underhill and the politics of ideas

A lively and absorbing study of the one of the foremost English Canadian intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Classical music

A passionate appeal from an acclaimed artist for the relevance of classical music in today's torn world.

Gold’s rounds

Dr Phil Gold recounts a bygone era of the life of Jewish immigrants to Montreal on the Main, his marriage to the love of his life, studying with Sir Arnold Burgen, and the discovery of CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen. By turns heartrending, funny, and wise, Gold’s Rounds will be cherished by medica...

Never rest on your ores

In Never Rest on Your Ores, Keevil recounts how a team of engineers and entrepreneurs built Canada’s largest diversified mining company. Drawing lessons from the turbulent period between 2005 and 2023, this new edition is both entertaining and instructive, a rare insider’s account of an industry ...

Connecting the dots

An intellectual memoir by one of Canada's leading legal scholars. Copublished with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Confessions of an immigrant's daughter

Laura Salverson’s autobiography describes a young immigrant woman’s rise above an early life of poverty, isolation, and upheaval. Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter depicts, sympathetically and graphically, the agonizing process of an immigrant Icelandic community adjusting to life in a forei...

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.

Law, life, and the teaching of legal history

Using the life and intellectual heritage of Blaine Baker, Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History is both biographical study and important exploration into contemporary issues in Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building, criminal law, an...

Victor and evie

The experiences of a governor general and his family in the early twentieth century, revealed through recently released letters and diaries.

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...

Strangers with memories

Like estranged best friends, two democracies go from sharing their dreams to forgetting what they had in common – and wondering if they can still trust one another.

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.

Alice street

The journey from an immigrant neighbourhood to the fields of medicine, finance, and academia.

Jean de grandpré

Beginning as Bell Canada’s general counsel in 1966, Jean de Grandpré rose through the ranks and became president in 1973. A few years later he created Bell Canada Enterprises, one of America’s largest telecommunications companies. Offering insight into the secrets of his success, Jean de Grandpré...

The darkest night brings longer days

The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days is Sirous Houshmand’s eyewitness testimony of Tehran’s Evin Prison and the 1988 mass executions of many of his prison friends. He recounts a journey from revolutionary fervour to political imprisonment, along the way, sharing insights from his youth to provide...

From the battlefield to the stage

Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga in 1777, General John Burgoyne led a multidimensional life. From the Battlefield to the Stage remembers him as not only a participant in one of Britain’s worst military disasters but also a brave soldier, successful playwrig...

Hitler's cosmopolitan bastard

In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a single passport. Timely and capitivating, Martyn Bond's biography ...

Fortune favours a bieler

Philippe Bieler, born in 1933 and a member of the silent generation, was nonetheless raised by his outspoken mother and well-connected father to not only be seen but also heard. Fortune Favours a Bieler looks back on the past century as a period of luck and opportunity for those who would seize it.

Call me giambattista

Recounting a political life lived during a turbulent time in Quebec.

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.

Joseph roberts smallwood

There are multiple J.R. Smallwoods, but the aspiring and ambitious figure presented in this biography stands apart. Melvin Baker and Peter Neary use the largely untapped sources of Smallwood's own papers and his extensive journalistic writing to add a documentary basis to what is known or conject...

Louis j. robichaud

In this closely drawn biography of Acadian New Brunswick premier Louis J. Robichaud, Donald Savoie provides a portrait of a man uniquely able to meet the need for difficult and enduring political and societal change.