Ottawa Book Award 2015 Shortlisted
Between 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.-

The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, a time such as there never was before.
The war had been a great crusade, promising a world made new. But it had cost Canada sixty thousand dead and many more wounded, and it had widened the many fault lines in a young,...