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Six English and five French books have been shortlisted for the 2016 Trillium Book Award, the Ontario government’s prestigious award for literature. Included on the shortlisted of French-language Finalists is MQUP’s Nourrir la machine humaine by Caroline Durand. Congratulations Caroline Durand on your nomination!
The Trillium Book Award was established to recognize excellence, support marketing and foster increased … Read More >
MQUP is very pleases to announce that three of our titles have been shortlisted for the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize.
The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize is awarded by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) and is attributed annually to the best scholarly book in Canadian history. Winners will be announced at the end of … Read More >
Each year since 1999, on the first Saturday in May, the town of Wilno, Ontario organizes a large festival in honour of Kashub Day.
The first Kashubs to arrive in Canada settled in around Wilno, Barry’s Bay, Round Lake, Hopefield, Halfway, Shrine Hill and Rockingham in Ontario in the west end of Renfrew County. The Kashubian culture … Read More >
Seeking our Eden: The Dreams and Migrations of Sarah Jameson Craig by Joanne Findon, was recently reviewed by Linda Kealey on Acadiensis. The Acadiensis blog is an essential source for reading and research on the history of Atlantic Canada.
The following is an excerpt from the review:
Seeking Our Eden provides an engrossing account of a 19th-century … Read More >
In honour of Black History month, here is an excerpt from Winfried Siemerling’s book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered. In this excerpt we get a glimpse at how black Canadian musicians influenced Montreal culture and history in the mid-twentieth century.
The following excerpt is taken from chapter 5 – Other Black Canadas
THE BLACKENING OF QUEBEC:
JAZZ, DIASPORA, AND THE … Read More >
BEYOND BRUTAL PASSIONS: PROSTITUTION IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY MONTREAL by Mary Anne Poutanen, was recently reviewed on Christopher Moore’s History News. The following is an excerpt from history Professor Elsbeth Heaman’s piece Book Notes: Heaman on Poutanen on Montreal Prostitution
That tension between ideal and real women is fully on display in Mary Anne … Read More >
Volume 1, part 2 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on Canada’s Residential Schools carries the story of the residential school system from the end of the Great Depression to the closing of the last remaining schools in the late 1990s. It demonstrates that the underfunding and unsafe living conditions that characterized the … Read More >
Last week our MQUP colleagues, Ryan Van Huijstee and Elena Goranescu, attended the event in Ottawa announcing the completion of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Here are Ryan’s observations:
The words “moved” and “moving” were used frequently over the last week to describe the release of the Truth and Reconciliation … Read More >
Two chairs were left empty on the stage at this week’s official release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The chairs were there to honour the memory of the children who never returned from the residential schools.
Below, a sobering excerpt from Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials, volume 4 of … Read More >
McGill-Queen’s University Press has undertaken to publish its own edition of the six volumes of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in English and French, after the TRC officially releases the report in mid-December. The final report is expected to be over 2 million words with contributions from over 6,750 … Read More >