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- Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
- Dictionary of Canadian Place Names
Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Includes 6,200 names of Canadian cities, towns, lakes, rivers, national parks, mountains, capes, channels and bays.
- Joe Zuken, Citizen and Socialist
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Examines the forces that dominated Winnipeg's social and political life from the 1930s to the 1980s - the impact of European migration, the growth of radicalism, the internment of communists in World War Two, and the political witchunting of the Cold War - through the life of a man who, through good times and bad, remained passionately devoted to social justice.
- Winnipeg 1919
The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 The Winnipeg General Strike was a landmark in Canadian political and labour history. This book, with the lively and clearly-written strikers' account of the strike and more than 40 photos of major strike events, offers the perspective on the strike of the people who organized it. Second edition.
- Winnipeg General Strike
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms. In March 1919 labour delegates from across Western Canada convened in Calgary to form a branch of the "One Big Union", with the intention of earning rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes.
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991 Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
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