Canada: A People’s History Volume 1 and 2, Gillmor, Don & Turgeon, Pierre. Published by McClelland & Stewart, 2002. Illustrated card covers. 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall; Volume I: 320pp., Volume II: 352pp. with maps, photos and illustrations. Contents in fine, unread condition; covers have very light shelf wear.
Volume 1 contains stories from the native oral tradition, the electrifying moments of the first contact between natives inhabitants and European explorers, right up to the post-Confederation resignation of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Volume 2 begins with the rebellion over property and language rights for the French-speaking Métis in Manitoba, and closes with the traumatic confrontations between the Mohawk and the army at Oka, Quebec in 1990. Between these two harrowing events lies a hundred years of astonishing change and development in Canada: two world wars, savage Depression years, and waves of immigrants who arrived from all corners of the world, and striking political changes that changed the nation forever.
