Practical Dreamers: Communitarianism and Co-operatives on Malcolm Island
An exciting examination of how the people of Malcolm Island use their community resources to fashion a distinct way of life. The book details the early history of the settlement at Sointula, then describes the roles played by the local credit union and a series of other co-operatives—consumer, fishing, tree planting, restaurant and food processing, shellfish—to show how the people of Malcolm Island work together in their common and individual interests. A must read for anyone interested in co-ops and the Social Economy in British Columbia and for anyone interested in the islands that dot its coast line.

It Was a Great Privilege: The Co-operative Memoirs of B. N. Arnason
From the late 1930s onward, B. N. Arnason was perhaps the best known and broadly admired Canadian public servant dealing directly with co-operatives. These memoirs are an important contribution to the sparse body of Canadian co-operative movement literature. They describe his career with various provincial ministries responsible for the development of co-operatives, notably in the fields of agricultural marketing and co-operative finance, especially credit unions.

Sorting Out: A selection of Papers and Presentations
This book is a collection of some of the papers, presentations and speeches written by Ian MacPherson between 1995 and 2005. They focus on four themes: the development of the Identity Page for the International Co-operative Alliance, the international co-operative experience, the co-operative banking movement (notably the credit union experience in Canada), and the fourth focuses on co-operatives in the past, present and future.

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