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And Peace Never Came
“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing ...
“I Want to Join Your Club”
“I am a girl, 13 years old, and a proper broncho buster. I can cook and do housework, but I just love to ride.”
In letters written to the children’s pages of newspapers, we hear the clear and authentic ...
Accident of Fate
Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia.
At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home ...
I Have a Story to Tell You
I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving ...
Must Write
Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer ...
My Basilian Priesthood
My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey’s six years in the order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged ...
Appel
Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion is the first-hand account of the author’s six years as a professional soldier during the 1990s, and his experience in the Legion's elite Groupe des Commandos ...
China Diary
Mary Austin was a mayors daughter who expected to live an uneventful life in Canada. But when she said I do to Jim Endicott she found that she had married China.
Thrust into extraordinary circumstances, ...
Just a Larger Family
Letters from Canada to the mother of child war guests from Britain are "an extraordinary slice of wartime Canadian life." — J.L. Granatstein
The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie ...
Motherlode
Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience is Carolyne Van Der Meer’s creative reinterpretation through short stories, poems, and essays of the experiences of her mother and other individuals ...