Books by Laurel Sefton Macdowell

The Kirkland Lake strike was a bitter struggle between the mine operators and their employees and became a national confrontation between the federal government and the labour movement over the issue of collective bargaining. Even though the strike was lost, its eventual effect on labour policy gave the dispute its particular significance.

This text traces the interaction between humans and the Canadian landscape, from the arrival of the first peoples to our current environmental crisis.