Product Description: The long rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the fur trade in Canada's northwest came to an explosive climax on June 19th, 1816, at the so-called Battle of Seven Oaks. Armed buffalo hunters - Indigenous allies of the Nor-Westers - confronted armed colonists of the HBC's Selkirk settlement near the forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in today's Winnipeg...read more

Product Description: Non-fiction authority Myrna Kostash merges the past and the present in The Frog Lake Reader, which offers a startlingly objective perspective on the tragic events surrounding the Frog Lake Massacre of 1885. By bringing together eyewitness accounts and journal excerpts, memoirs and contemporary fiction, and excerpts from interviews with historians, Kostash provides a panoramic perspective on a tragedy often overshadowed by Louis Riel's rebellion during the same year...read more

Product Description: This is the story of the North Saskatchewan River in multiple voices, including writing by famous names and those less familiar, from its rise in the Rocky Mountains to its exit into Lake Winnipeg.

Product Description: What kind of Canada does the under-35 generation see themselves heir to? Do they consider themselves members of a Canadian nation at all?The only way to find out, Myrna Kostash decided, was to travel across Canada and talk to young people in all walks of life...read more

Product Description: It is said that one's first love sets the template for all loves to follow. The Doomed Bridegroom narrates one woman's attraction to rebel heroes, both real and imagined, in Canada, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean.

Product Description: AcknowledgementsForewordIntroductionPortraitsPart 1 Peace and WarI Peace now!II War is good business, invest your sonIII Hell no, we won't goPart 2 Student PowerI Knowledge for whom?II. Be realistic, demand the impossiblePart 3 Counterculture1...read more