Battle on the Ice by Jean Rae Baxter
When young Dory Dickson leaves his home to seek work, his father advises him to avoid the border towns, where Patriots meet to plan rebellion.
Upper Canada
Anangokaa by Cameron Alam
ANANGOKAA is the evocative coming-of-age story of a young woman who must determine what sacrifices she is willing to make for the life she longs to live.
An Unrecognized Contribution: Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto by Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Women’s stories are told in this wide-ranging collection of biographies, the result of Muir’s research on early street directories and city histories, personal diaries, and other historical works.
It Was Dark There All The Time: Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada by Andrew Hunter
Sophia Burthen’s account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century, was recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855. In It Was Dark There All the Time, writer and curator Andrew Hunter builds on the testimony of Drew’s interview to piece together Burthen’s life, while reckoning with the legacy of whiteness and colonialism in the recording of her story.