Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada’s rural population grew throughout the century after 18

Rural and Small Town Canada examines the economic and social reality of rural and small town Canada today. Emphasis is placed on labour markets, the well-being

“An important contribution to the literature on contemporary American politics. Both methodologically and substantively, it breaks new ground.” —Journal o

In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each

Sylvester challenges the view in prairie historiography that agriculture had commercialized before the west was opened to settlement, and that ethnic communitie