This book begins with glance back at the Spanish explorers and their contact with the Blackfoot, and moves forward with stories of the fur traders, the explorers, the settling of the west, the gold rush, the Underground Railway, Confederation, the Northwest Resistance, and a growing call for women's suffrage. This book begins with World War I and moves forward to the Winnipeg Strike, the development of aircraft, cars, and hydroelectricity, the Depression, women's suffrage, World War II, immigration, separatism, the women's rights movement, the environment, multiculturalism, and the struggle of Canada's First Peoples for self-government.