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2026 Great Escapes: Books & Travel
Wars of Conviction
A History of Canadian Transnational Fighters
Edited by Tim Cook, Adrian Shubert and Marcel Martel
“One of the more remarkable strengths of this ambitious book is how it explores the great variety of motivations and experiences of Canadian individuals involved in transnational fighting.”
— John MacFarlane, author of Triquet’s Cross: A Study of Military Heroism
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The Remarkable Life of Eco-Warrior David Garrick
By Catherine Marie Gilbert
Greenpeace was founded in B.C. and David Garrick was there! With his friend Paul Watson he shared life-altering adventures including Greenpeace’s inaugural whale and harp seal campaigns. But more than a biography, this book documents the vibrant and pioneering history of Canada’s environmental movement. “An excellent chronicling of his extraordinary and exemplary life.”
The Canadian Canoe Museum
CANOE PERSPECTIVES: The McCreath Art Collection at the Canadian Canoe Museum — its new exhibit — opens on May 14, 2026. Experience a selection from the largest private collection of original Canadian art featuring the canoe, and discover the rich artistic traditions that reveal how this vessel continues to inspire. The exhibition brings together works by prominent artists, including Frances Anne Hopkins, F.H. Johnston, Alex Colville, Ken Danby and others.
The Canadian Canoe Museum
Peterborough, Ont.
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The Breakwater
By Leslie Shimotakahara
Shortly before the Second World War, Yas Matsumoto commits his troublesome younger brother, Stum, to an asylum — unknowingly sparing Stum from the cruelty of the Japanese Canadian internment camps. Decades later, the two brothers reunite near the end of their lives, peeling back layers of memories to revisit a long-buried, unspeakable family secret.
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A Vacation for Victory
An Illustrated History of the Women’s Land Army in Canada
By Kelsey M. Lonie
“A historiographical triumph and feat of storytelling, A Vacation for Victory feeds our understanding of an overlooked but powerful period in Canada’s military past.”
— Alex Bowers, Legion magazine
Confronting the Resurgent Right
Edited by Miriam Edelson
Contributors to this volume explore the deep roots and new threats of right-wing extremism in Canada. Modelling pathways of resistance, they charge us with our most urgent collective task: finding ways to work together while exposing and countering the regressive forces that spew hate.
On Settler Colonialism in Canada
Edited by Emily Grafton and David MacDonald
A bold, forward-thinking collection that exposes the colonialist ideology embedded within the Canadian settler state and builds strategies to dismantle it. This book poses essential questions, including: How do we meaningfully support Indigenous resurgence movements? What are settlers’ responsibilities in the ongoing work of decolonization?
Always a Part of the Land
The Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories
By Cody Groat
“Cody Groat brilliantly reveals the changing politics — and colonial outcomes — of a national practice of historical commemoration that has consistently marginalized and excluded First Nations.”
— Philip Deloria, Harvard University
A Fight for Justice
The Compelling Story of Temporary Foreign Workers & Human Rights
By Joe Barrett
The story of how migrant workers, with the support of Canadian unions, won justice in a landmark court decision. In 2006, 42 Latin Americans arrived to excavate tunnels for the SkyTrain. They had been promised wages far above what they would earn at home. But the reality was miserable wages, unpaid overtime and poor living conditions. And so began their fight for justice.
Imprinting Empire
Land and Settler Colonialism in Manitoba Newspapers
By Shelisa Klassen
Imprinting Empire demonstrates how immigration is an intentional, violent and integral part of the settler colonial process, and points clearly to the printing press as a weapon of empire.
Canada in the Age of Rum
By Allan Greer
“This book hits so many high notes. The writing is cogent and lively. It compellingly narrates fascinating episodes that demonstrate rum and alcohol’s significance in early Canada.”
— Anya Zilberstein, author of A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America
Numinous Animal
By Bertrand Bickersteth
Numinous Animal uncovers the hidden history of Black cowboys on the Prairies, tracing family ties from salvery to Afrofuturism. Through a font created from cattle brands, Bickersteth transforms marks of ownership into a language of freedom and love.
The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213
By Ian McDonald
The “Red Baron” of IBEW Local 213 was Les McDonald, once a firebrand Communist activist and leader of the union’s left wing in Vancouver. His life became entwined with the 1966 Lenkurt Electric wildcat strike, which led to the imprisonment of four trade union leaders and marked a turning point in Canadian labour history.
Constitutional Challengers
By Adam Dodek
“Just as every superhero has an origin story, so does every landmark decision from the Supreme Court of Canada.”
— Alison Crawford, host of Verdicts and Voices
Toronto Edwardian
Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age
By David E. Winterton
“Winterton’s magnum opus on Frank Darling fills in a missing piece in the story of Canada’s architectural profession — and humanizes a uniquely nuanced industry leader of his time.”
— Canadian Architect
Mirrors of a Generation
The Company of Young Canadians, Youth Activism, and Community Development, 1965–1976
By Kevin Brushett
“… the only serious attempt to understand how [the CYC] fit within some of the most important social justice issues of the 1960s.”
— Stephanie Bangarth, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario
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Canada’s Great War Album
Edited by Mark Collin Reid
Canada’s Great War Album is a remarkable collection of Canadian photographs, memorabilia and stories of the war. Included are contributions from Peter Mansbridge, Charlotte Gray, J.L. Granatstein, Christopher Moore, Jonathan Vance and Tim Cook.
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