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Walking Through Mirrors
From Calabria to "America": Growing Up Canadian in an Immigrant home
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In Walking Through Mirrors, his second memoir, John Dominelli returns to the rooms, streets, train tracks, and creek beds of his childhood, tracing his life from a fraught birth in an immigrant household to the threshold of the three-year...
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Gone Canucking
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In November of 2016, following the first election of Donald Trump, immigration lawyer Dan White looked at his wife, Susie, and five words were spoken: “We gotta get outta here.” Their move from Tennessee to Canada was a process of cultural...
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60 Years for Grenfell
The Legacy of Edith Sloan Griscom
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In 1919, Edith Sumner Sloan, a high society girl from New York City, decides to pack up her things and head north, to Newfoundland and Labrador. She volunteers for the International Grenfell Association, and teaches in a one-room schoolhouse in a...
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Echoes of The Island
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We learned to plant crops, fish, love, and wait. Two places could hardly seem as different in ways of life than Alexandria, Egypt and Sherwood, Prince Edward Island. But in this collection of vignettes, author Ahmed Fathi Shalabi reflects on his...
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A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga
An Immigrant's Story
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Growing up ‘European’ in 1930s and ‘40s South Africa, Joan leads a privileged life … though marred by family tragedy. After she escapes her Victorian grandmother’s repressive upbringing to study midwifery, she comes face to face with the racial...
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Kid Rodeo
A Memoir
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What happens when a sharp-eyed kid grows up in the lee of the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by rodeos, eccentric neighbors, and the wild freedom of 1950s southern Alberta? You get Kid Rodeo, a collection of stories unfolding with liberal dabs of...
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A Bruised Reed
A Personal History of Ukraine and Ukrainian Immigration to Canada
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Marek’s personal story is framed within Ukraine’s broader history of foreign domination, war, and cultural suppression. In the aftermath of WWI Marek, along with his wife Matrunka set sail to Canada. They establish a homestead in Alberta with...
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I Want to Break Free
An Abacus Story
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In 1984, fourteen-year-old Koorosh Eslami left Tehran with his father to escape being drafted into the Iran-Iraq War. After living and studying in Türkiye, his unique adventure begins and he flees to Canada alone, illegally where he was detained...
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The Power of Persistence
A Journey Across Borders and Through Storms
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A sweeping memoir of migration, resilience, and the unbreakable will to endure. A story that spans continents and generations, The Power of Persistence: A Journey Across Borders and Through Storms traces an extraordinary life shaped by history’s...
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Otiosus
An Edwardian-Era Muskoka Cottage
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Edna (Grainger) Page provides an engaging account of one of the earliest cottages in the Muskoka District north of Toronto. Edna arrived at the newly constructed cottage in 1901, when she was only three years old. The family travelled by train,...
