Battles of Canada’s West: Military Conflicts, Resistance & Rebellions

Battles of the Canadian West is a concise, illustrated non-fiction account of key military conflicts and confrontations in Western Canada. This work provides an overview of various regional clashes, ranging from military engagements to settler–Indigenous conflicts, and provides context, timelines, and short biographies of the principal actors. The prose is accessible and organized into short chapters, so the coverage of Canadian conflicts could be used to explore Canadian history, emphasizing the causes and consequences of events. While the individual chapters do not list sources, there is a list of sources at the end of the text that educators could use for further research.