Women
An Unrecognized Contribution
By Elizabeth Gillan Muir
A treasure trove of incredible lives lived.
— RICK MERCER, comedian and author
Muir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.
— WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisher
Emphasizes the enormously influential ... Read more
Asleep in the Deep
By Dianne Kelly
On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members died, including fourteen nursing sisters. It was the most significant Canadian naval ... Read more
Hemingway's Widow
By Timothy Christian
A stunning portrait of the complicated woman who was Ernest Hemingway’s fourth wife, exploring the tumultuous years of their marriage, and evoking her merry widowhood as she shapes Hemingway’s literary legacy.
Mary Welsh, a celebrated wartime journalist during the London ... Read more
She Is Sitting in the Night
By Oliver Pickle
By (artist) Ruth West
Foreword by Rima Athar
A contemporary queer re-visioning of a beautiful feminist tarot deck from the 80s--documenting a conversation across generations and mediums--She Is Sitting in the Night emerges as both a tool for tarot reading and a celebration of queer and feminist cultural production, past ... Read more
Silenced
By Bonnie Reilly Schmidt
When thirty-two women were hired as mounted police officers in 1974, it was a media sensation. After all, these were not the brawny heroes of Canadian history, or the dashing and handsome Mounties portrayed in over two hundred Hollywood movies. Women were thought to be afraid ... Read more
Sisterhood of the Squared Circle
By Pat Laprade
With Dan Murphy
Foreword by WWE Superstar Natalya
Documenting the rise of women’s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event
Sisterhood of the Squared Circle presents the fascinating history of women’s wrestling, from the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today’s hugely popular matches. With more than 100 wrestler profiles, ... Read more
The City That Is Leaving Forever
By Rahat Kurd & Sumayya Syed
The City That Is Leaving Forever is a unique twenty-first-century time capsule: an instant-message exchange between Kashmir and British Columbia spanning more than five years in the lives of two Muslim Kashmiri women poets. In 2016, as India’s military carries out extrajudicial ... Read more