Adele Perry is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. She was born and raised in a non-Indigenous family in British Columbia, did hard time in Toronto, and has lived in Winnipeg since 2000. She writes about the nineteenth century, gender, Canada, and colonialism, and is the author of On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (University of Toronto Press, 2001), Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World (Cambridge, 2015), and the co-editor of four editions of Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History. With Esyllt Jones, she coordinated 2011's People's Citizenship Guide to Canada, published by ARP Books. You can find her on twitter at @AdelePerry.
It's difficult not to get angry when reading Aquaduct. Perry's frustration is palpable in the first chapter, and as the story progresses, it's hard for the reader to not become more incredulous-the injustice is truly unmistakeable. However Perry does a phenomenal job of trying the hard history of Shoal Lake's indigenous people into the hopeful future of tomorrow. -Maria Siassina
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