Browse Books in History

A Perfect Day for a Walk
The History, Cultures, and Communities of Vancouver, on Foot

Characters Along the Road

What's the Point?
An Irreverent History of Point Pleasant Park

Hope by Terry Fox

Battle of Britain
Canadian Airmen in their Finest Hour

Folklife and Superstition
The Luck, Lore and Worldviews of Prairie Homesteaders

Hope by Terry Fox

The Lives of Lake Ontario
An Environmental History

Shifting Gears
Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

Beothuk
How Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear

Reckoning with History
Essays on Uses of the Past

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

Métis Matriarchs
Agents of Transition

Not Just a Man’s War
Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45

In Her Glory
An Homage in Prose and Poetry

The Traitor's Daughter
Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

Toronto in 100 Beers

The Knowing
The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools

Salvage
Readings from the Wreck

Shadows of Tyranny
Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship

Indonesia
April 2024

The Symons Medal: La médaille Symons
Twenty Years of Reflection on an Evolving Canada: Vingt ans de réflexion sur le Canada, un pays en évolution

Now You Know Me
Seeing the Unhidden Truth in Settler Colonialism

The HBC Brigades
Culture, conflict and perilous journeys of the fur trade