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Matthew Bellamy presents an engaging history of one of Canada’s oldest and most prominent beer companies in his recent release, Brewed in the North: A History of Labatt’s. Carefully investigating the origins of John Kinder Labatt’s brewing operations in London, Ontario, Bellamy goes on to present a thorough and unconventional account of … Read More >
Join Michael A. Peterman for the Eastern tour of his new book, Delicious Mirth: The Life and Times of James McCarroll. Between February and April, the author will appear at six separate events including a talk at the cemetary where James McCarroll is buried. Click on any of the links below to learn … Read More >
In the post below, M. Ann Hall elaborates on the writing and research process behind her new book, Muscle on Wheels: Louise Armaindo and the High-Wheel Racers of Nineteenth-Century America.
February is Black History Month. During the twenty-eight days there are events and resources encouraging Canadians to further participate in honouring the Black Canadian experience. MQUP has published a number of titles within Black Studies and African Studies, all of which contribute important perspectives and research. … Read More >
As we wrap up 2017 we’re reflecting on the final releases of our Fall 2017 catalogue. However, the following list is not just some of our newest arrivals, but new arrivals in religious studies. From biography to history to philosophy, these titles reflect on prominent figures and thinkers, the female experience, or secularization.
The following is an excerpt from a University of Kent blog Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain, exploring Cecilia Morgan’s new book Travellers Through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada.
Newly released from the Fall 2017 catalogue, two new editions explore Canadian history through a lens of Indigenous studies and Northern studies. In the second edition of Voices from Hudson Bay, Muskego Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived an worked at the Hudson’s Bay Company post at York … Read More >
The first week of July marked the hundredth anniversary of the death of Tom Thomson, the renowned 20th-century Canadian artist whose influence was integral to the formation of the Group of Seven. Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and Reproductions (2004) explores Thomson’s impact on Canadian art and … Read More >
Andy Huynh came to Canada as a teenager in the 1980s as one of about 70,000 Indochinese refugees who were granted entry to the country. The story of his journey, and all of the memories associated with it, recently resurfaced unexpectedly when Huynh spotted a photograph of himself in a CBC article about Canada’s role … Read More >
The Book: A Backstory
by Christopher Dummitt
Why would anyone ever write a book? I first started thinking about the book that would become Unbuttoned in 2003. And yet it is only this spring, fourteen years later, that the book was published. I’m inclined to agree that delayed gratification increases pleasure, but that is one heck of … Read More >