Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt
Yves Engler

Lester Pearson is one of Canada’s most important political figures. A Nobel Peace laureate, he is considered a great peacekeeper and ‘honest broker.’ But in this critical examination of his work, Pearson is exposed as an ardent cold warrior who backed colonialism and apartheid in Africa, Zionism, coups in Guatemala, Iran and Brazil and the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic. A beneficiary of U.S. intervention in Canadian political affairs, he also provided important support to the U.S. in Vietnam and pushed to send troops to the American war in Korea. Written in the form of a submission to an imagined “Truth and Reconciliation” commission about Canada’s foreign policy past Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt challenges one of the most important Canadian foreign policy myths.

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Canada’s Entrepreneurs: From the Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash
J. Andrew Ross & Andrew D. Smith

Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them — the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose entrepreneurialism has shaped the face of Canadian business as we know it.

This captivating collection of biographies profiles Canada's most prominent and innovative business people from the early 1600s through the first quarter of the twentieth century. One of the least explored yet most important themes in our history — this book showcases Canada's long-running tradition of business innovation and growth.

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GWG: Piece by Piece
Catherine C. Cole

Remember pearl-snap Western shirts, Scrubbies jeans and denim jackets, George W. Groovy, Cowboy Kings, and Red Straps? Take a trip down memory lane and relive the GWG story! GWGs have been a cultural icon in Canada since the company's founding in 1911. Here, at long last, is the complete, illustrated history of the Great Western Garment Company, whose products were staples for some generations and defined cool for others. Includes archival photographs, advertisements, product photos, and insights on the long history of this iconic Canadian company. Begun in Edmonton, GWG not only manufactured jeans, but also helped immigrant women support their families, becoming a model of management and labour working collaboratively. GWG eventually became the largest workwear manufacturing company in Canada, providing different styles of work and leisure clothing for men, women, and children, and for the military during both world wars. Although Levis acquired the company during the 1960s and '70s, and closed the last factories in 2004, the GWG brand remains a part of pop culture. It is firmly fixed in the Canadian psyche and still holds a place in Canadian hearts.

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Last Moments: Sentenced to Death in Canada
Dale Brawn

Before the final execution in 1962, more than 700 men and women were executed by hanging in Canada. Last Moments shines a light into a dark corner of a long and painful part of Canadian history that threatens to re-emerge. Here are dramatic stories of the characters whose finals moments and last words were tragic, unpredictable, poignant, eccentric and often bizarre. Stories such as, before Confederation, executioners were often recruited from among the condemned, and they were given two options — kill or be killed. A Yukon execution was delayed because freezing spectators used the wooden trapdoor of the gallows to build a fire. One man brawled with his executioner on the scaffold before onlookers leaped into the fray, overpowered him and held him on the trapdoor until he was dropped to his death... and so many more tantalizing and twisted tidbits.

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Canada 1911: The Decisive Election That Shaped the Country
Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie

One hundred years ago, Canadians went to the polls to decide the fate of their country in an election that raised issues vital to Canada's national independence and its place in the world. Canadians faced a clear choice between free trade with the United States and fidelity to the British Empire, and the decisions they made in September 1911 helped shape Canada's political and economic history for the rest of the century. Canada 1911 revisits and re-examines this momentous turn in Canadian history, when Canadians truly found themselves at a parting of the ways. It was Canada's first great modern election and one of the first expressions of the birth of modern Canada. The poet Rudyard Kipling famously wrote at the time that this election was nothing less than a fight for Canada's soul. This book will explain why.

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