Seeing Reds:
The Red Scare of 1918–1919,
Canada’s First War on Terror
Daniel Francis

Author Daniel Francis examines Canada's Red Scare in a global context, including government responses to similar activities in the United States and western Europe, as well as its ramifications for the contemporary war on terror, in which issues of free speech and political dissent are similarly compromised in the name of national security. Based on government documents and first-hand accounts by the participants themselves, Seeing Reds is a gripping account of a little known episode in Canadian history.

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Sailing Seven Seas:
A History of the Canadian Pacific Line
Peter Pigott

With a witty and informative style, author Peter Pigott evokes not only the nostalgic heyday of ocean travel but reveals a slice of almost-forgotten Canadiana. From the stifling steerage quarters of immigrant ships to the elegant drawing rooms of nautical titans such as the ill-fated Empress of Ireland and the Empress of Asia, from U-boat-haunted convoys to container ships, shore dwellers and old salts alike will be delighted with Sailing Seven Seas.

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Extraordinary Canadians:
Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine
& Robert Baldwin
John Ralston Saul

Canada has no better interpreter than brilliant writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that modern Canada did not begin in 1867; indeed, its foundation was laid by two visionary men, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin. The two leaders of Lower and Upper Canada, respectively, worked together after the 1841 Union to create a reformist movement for responsible government run by elected citizens instead of a colonial governor.

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The Empire Within:
Postcolonial Thought and Political
Activism in Sixties Montreal
Sean Mills

How did a First World urban population come to imagine itself as part of a global anti-colonial movement? The Empire Within tackles this and other paradoxes created by the surprising power and influence of Third World decolonisation on the political activism in 1960s Montreal.

In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonisation to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and class and to imagine themselves as part of a broad transnational movement of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance.

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The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider’s View
William Tetley

Forty years ago, in October 1970, Robert Bourassa’s provincial government refused to exchange twenty-three FLQ terrorists for political hostages. By the evening of 15 October, 3000 outraged Quebecers appeared poised to riot. Fearing insurrection, the federal government implemented the War Measures Act and jailed 497 people.

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