I got only as far as the First World War, a third of the way in. I had been reading slowly, meticulously, dog-earing, underlining, committing facts to memory. Every detail, every story, every summation in Helen Potrebenko’s No Streets of Gold: A Social History of Ukrainians in Alberta, published in 1977, was calling to a family history left deliberately unuttered by my maternal…
Laurie D. Graham
Laurie D. Graham is the author of Fast Commute and other books. She is also the publisher of Brick magazine.