Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped ...

Mowafa’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. His childhood was spent in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a muslim whose family had a deeply ...

As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life ...

Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising ...

In a series of chronological vignettes, Arthur Bear Chief depicts the punishment, cruelty, abuse, and injustice that he endured at Old Sun Residential School and then later relived in the traumatic process ...

In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search
of her imagined America. Meanwhile, the political unrest in Iran
intensified and in 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee ...

Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lo (or, as
they are now called, Xwélmexw) matriarch, artist, and craftswoman.
Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters ...

Zarah Petri was just a little girl when her family left Hungary to find
a new life in Canada in the 1920s. She showed spunk and a great
imagination that would serve her well as a new immigrant and young ...