The Laurentian
Series
Ongoing story collections.
The Long Record
2 storiesClassic Canadian history, reported like news: the decisions that still decide things.
The Canadians Who Went to China
2 storiesNorman Bethune, Richard Brown, Jean Ewen, James Endicott, and the others who were present at the founding of modern China.
Who Broke the Prairie
2 storiesThe peoples who settled the prairies — Icelandic, Ukrainian, Mennonite, Scandinavian and the rest — and what it cost the country that was already there.
Before the Maps
2 storiesEarly contact with the Pacific coast, and the stories people have wanted to be true about it. Theories are labelled as theories.
The Rail and the Tax
2 storiesThe Chinese contribution to Canada: the men who built the hard half of the railway, the laws that answered them, and what the community built anyway.