McGill-Queen's University Press is proud to announce Footprints Series edited by renowned McGill University historian Suzanne Morton. The life stories of individual women and men who were participants in interesting events help nuance larger historical narratives, at times reinforcing those narratives, at others contradicting them. Footprints introduces extraordinary Canadians, past and present, who have led fascinating and important lives at home and throughout the world. Alex Paterson grew up in Montreal during the Duplessis era and watched the Quiet Revolution transform Quebec from a...

Stephen Casey was twenty-one when he entered the Jesuit Order in Canada in 1947. The striving for Christian perfection eventually led him to depression and a complete breakdown - he almost lost his ability to speak. After thirty-seven years as a Jesuit he left the priesthood. The Greater Glory is a candid memoir about a way of life that, after fifteen hundred years, is disappearing. Casey offers a vivid and incisive portrayal of the seminary, especially the training for novices - the physical and spiritual discipline, the asceticism, the anxieties that surrounded the socialization of young...

Yokohama, a quiet fishing village when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived with his gunboat diplomacy in the mid-1800s, was quickly transformed into a bustling port for international trade. The change brought affluent foreigners to the city but also mobilized Japanese nationalist hostilities. It was in this setting that Ron and Martin Baenninger's Canadian mother and Swiss father met in 1933. Relying on Ron's early memories, their mother's diary, and the acute memory of their father, who lived to be over one hundred, the Baenningers recount the initial years of their parents' marriage and provide...

The journey from an immigrant neighbourhood to the fields of medicine, finance, and academia.