A Perfect Day for a Walk by Bill Arnott
When I arrived, a tourist in Vancouver twenty years ago, it was apparent almost immediately how incredibly walkable the city is.
History
Excerpt: A Perfect Day for a Walk: The History, Cultures, and Communities of Vancouver, on Foot
Excerpted with permission from Arsenal Pulp Press
She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner
Beatriz Hausner combines poetry and poetic prose, fiction and non-fiction and her own remarkable presence into a work of creative imagination. This book moves with cohesion and depth across a set of mysteries that have endured for over seventeen centuries.
The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the First World War by Kristen den Hartog
A trickle that began in 1915
turned to a flood of soldiers returning to Canada needing care for their often-devastating injuries:
missing limbs, ravaged lungs, faces and minds destroyed. Many of them ended up at Toronto’s
newly opened Christie Street hospital, also known as the Dominion Orthopedic Hospital (DOH).
The Lucky and the Lost: A Complete History of Titanic’s Children by John Boileau with Patricia Boileau Theriault
As its name suggests, The Lucky and the Lost: A Complete History of Titanic’s Children, takes on the tireless effort of tracing the lives of Titanic’s children.
Atrocity On The Atlantic by Nate Hendley
It was the greatest Canadian naval disaster of the First World War.
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons by Charlotte Gray
A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter by Laura Goodman Salverson
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter remains both a Canadian classic and an important social history of the experiences of women and immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Hippie Pirates by Lana Shupe
There are many things that Kent, Ryan, and Amy love about their somewhat eccentric hippie-pirate grandparents, but best of all are their wonderful stories about travelling the world in search of treasure.
Black and Blue: Jazz Stories by Stanley Péan, translated by David Homel
Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way.
The Acadian Saga: A People’s Story of Exile and Triumph, New & Revised Edition By Dean Jobb
A classic work of Acadian history from the award-winning journalist Dean Jobb is finally back in print.
Afterlight by Isa Milman
A haunting memoir of war, genocide, displacement, and a daughter’s search for the literary works of her mother’s murdered twin.
Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda by Michael Hingston
Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, the complete history of Redonda’s transformation from an uninhabited, guano-encrusted island into a fantastical and international kingdom of writers.
The Great Saint John Fire of 1877: The rise, destruction and recovery of Canada’s leading port city by Mark Allan Greene
What most of us don’t know is this: it was the single most devastating urban fire in the 19th century in North America, eclipsing the more famous fires in Boston and Chicago.
Susanna Hall, Her Book by Jennifer Falkner
Jennifer Falkner’s Susanna Hall, Her Book is another imagining of the life of Susanna, the eldest daughter of William Shakespeare, but one approached from a different angle than most.
