Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters

Social history contests the construction of the past as the story of elites—a grand narrative dedicated to the actions of those in power. Our Lives seeks instead to make available voices from the past that might otherwise remain unheard. By foregrounding the experience of ordinary individuals, the series aims to demonstrate that history is ultimately the story of our lives, lives constituted in part by our response to the issues and events of the era into which we are born.

Series Titles

A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri

John Leigh Walters

Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery

Helen Waldstein Wilkes

A Woman of Valour: The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle

Claire Trépanier

Man Proposes, God Disposes: Recollections of a French Pioneer

Pierre Maturié, translated by Vivien Bosley

Xwelíqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch

Rena Point Bolton and Richard Daly

Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country: Memories of a Mother and Son

Elizabeth Bingham Young and E. Ryerson Young, edited and with introductions by Jennifer S. H. Brown

Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun

Vilmond Joegodson Déralciné and Paul Jackson

The Teacher and the Superintendent: Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior, 1904–1918

Compiled and annotated by George E. Boulter II and Barbara Grigor-Taylor

Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile

Farideh Goldin

Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir

Meenal Shrivastava

Under the Nakba Tree: Fragments of a Palestinian Family in Canada

Mowafa Said Househ

Drink in the Summer: A Memoir of Croatia

Tony Fabijančić

Safarnameh: A Traveller’s Journey Along the Hippie Trail

Trevor W. Harrison