Tragedies and Discoveries

Highlights from recently self-published Canadian-history books

Compiled by Canada’s History

 — Posted June 25, 2018

Besides the many Canadian history titles released each year by dedicated publishers across the country, we receive a handful of self-published books about aspects of Canadian history. The brief selection listed below includes stories of policing, immigration, mining, environmental catastrophes, Arctic transportation, and archaeological discoveries, as well as one historical fiction title.

The North-West Mounted Police, 1873-1885, by Jack F. Dunn
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Weather Bomb 1913: Life and Death on the Great Lakes, by Bruce Kemp
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Five Ages of Canada: A History, from our First Peoples to Confederation, by Graham Gibbs
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Sun Dogs and Yellowcake: Gunnar Mines — A Canadian Story, by Patricia Sandberg
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True North, Strong and Free: New Ways of Looking at Canada on the 150th Birthday of the Country, by Brian Arthur Brown
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The Belle of Collingwood, by Marjorie Day
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Memoirs of a Pakhtun Immigrant, by T. Schapansky
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The Archaeology of Patterson Village: A 19th-Century Company Town in the Township of Vaughan, Ontario, by William D. Finlayson
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A Radioactive Waste Dump in Malvern: A Citizen’s Account, by George R.E. Heighington
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Cobalt: Canada's Forgotten Silver Boom Town, by Douglas O. Baldwin
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Arctic Cargo: A History of Marine Transportation in Canada’s North, by Christopher Wright
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