Have you ever wondered what stories were pushed aside so a nation could be built by rail? Who paid the real price when tracks cut across living landscapes, and how those costs still shape the present? Tracks of Dispossession answers those questions. This investigative history centers Indigenous voices and evidence to reveal how treaties, coercion,…

Who built the railway you learned about in school, and whose voices were left out? If you are tired of triumphalist histories celebrating steel and engineers while erasing the lives, labor, and languages of those who actually laid the tracks, this book fills that gap. Tracks of Many Tongues tells the human story behind the Canadian Pacific…