Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia’s Kootenay by Lily Chow

In Hard Is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow exposes the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay, shedding light on the stories of those who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today.

Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom by Stephen Gowans

[dropcap]Of[/dropcap] all the wars fought in the twentieth century, the one I was least familiar with was the Korean War. Odd, because my father-in-law served in Korea with Canadian Forces. With Baraka Books’ 2018 release of Patriots, Traitors and Empires by Stephen Gowans came my opportunity to learn more about the history of Korea, how …

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