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More Than History
Stories of Helena Petrov Thiessen (1909-1996) and Peter Aron Reimer (1903-1958)
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Yes, this is family history! It is an immigrant story. It includes significant scholastic research. It situates the personal and family narrative within the broader political, economic, and social context of the 1920s and the subsequent decades....
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Voices from Viet Nam
Local Histories on the Road to Peace
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Based on interviews with survivors of “the American War,” Voices from Việt Nam delivers a moving portrait of a people who have succeeded, against great odds, in overcoming the horrors of war and occupation without bitterness—but also without...
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Shadows Across The Line
Voices of The Displaced
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In Shadows Across the Line: Voices of the Displaced, author Senol Tasdelen examines the causes, the history, and the consequences of migration patterns around the globe and relates the personal stories of some of those who risked everything in a...
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The Elusive Conquest of Queen Califa
California History Revisited
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It was then that John and I were slapped awake by the brilliant color and majestic presence of our hosts. The walls and ceilings that gave us shelter by night had, in the morning’s light, come alive with the vivid forms of men, deer, mountain...
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The Making of a Radical Immigrant
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The radical immigrant in the title of this book, Edo Jardas, was a young Croatian who arrived in Canada in May 1926 and worked for several years as a lumberjack in the hinterland of British Columbia. He was a loyal member of the Communist Party...
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Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders
A Century of Stories from Mexico's Mennonite Villages
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In Chihuahua, Mexico, the Tres Culturas region is a place where Mennonite, Mestizo, and Indigenous Rarámuri people live, forming a crossroad of traditions, languages, and ways of living. A landscape of convergence and divergence, breaking and...
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Old Town Victoria
Walk Through Time
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For over a decade, local historian and walking tour guide Dave Mason has been uncovering the rich architectural and cultural heritage of downtown Victoria, British Columbia. This guidebook brings together years of meticulous research—rooted in...
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The Broken Furrow
The Tale of a Welsh Farmer in Canada
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If a plough strikes a rock, the furrow—the trench in the earth made by the plough—is broken. The otherwise straight line is disrupted, an imperfection you can’t hide. In competition ploughing, a broken furrow is catastrophic. From his childhood...
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Mennonite to Mainstream
Abandoning the Old Colony and Growing Up in Rural Canada
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In a family history that stretches back five hundred years, Judy introduces readers to life under Old Colony Mennonite rules as experienced by her parents and grandparents in rural Canada and Mexico. Despite this history, it took Judy’s family...
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Mrs. Simcoe
A Life in the Age of Revolution
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Born into war and orphaned at birth, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim Simcoe lived through some of the most dramatic upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the genteel world of the English landed gentry to rugged colonial Canada,...
