History / Canadian History

This book sheds light on the history of the Square Mile, a powerful symbol of wealth in Montreal's urban landscape.

Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.

Educated, articulate, and with an enduring fascination for the natural world, Leslie Howard Miller, a Canadian soldier who served in the First World War, kept this remarkable diary of his wartime experiences.

This book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era.

The Dervishes of the North traces the legacy of the thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and examines contemporary Sufism in Canada.

1950s Canada chronicles the social, economic, and cultural developments of Canadian politics and public affairs in the 1950s.

This book recounts the many and varied transformations in the history of law in Canada in the half century after Confederation.

The final volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats in Canada in the twentieth century.

Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat.

This book sheds light on the fraught relationship between birth and citizenship, particularly in the Canadian context.

Innate Terrain surveys landscape architecture from across Canada, documenting the inspiring breadth of contemporary projects.

Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law.

Residential Schools and Reconciliation is a unique, timely, and provocative work that tackles and explains the institutional responses to Canada’s residential school legacy.

Monty and the Canadian Army details the lasting influence of General B.L. Montgomery, whose military competence shaped the Canadian Army in the Second World War.

Transforming Dentistry traces the rise and near demise of the dentistry program at Western University.

The first book in a new series, Forgotten Things demonstrates the process of archaeological research and explores the culture of fieldwork.