Stout Hearts Stand Tall : Biographical Sketch of a Militant Saskatchewan Farmer the Late Hopkin Evan Mills

Textured card covers, 330 pages, 6x9 in - 15x23 cm, B&W and colour photographs.

Front cover top corners lightly rubbed, back cover lightly sunned along spine. Spine bumped at head and heel, sunned. Front cover verso, back cover recto, and front/rear vacat pages lightly tanned.

In this biography of Hopkin Evan Mills, Ivor J. Mills recounts his father's life of labor and activisim through stories of prairie life, sociological remarks, and philosophical reflections. Mills arrived in Canada from England in 1903, selling real estate in Winnipeg before homesteading near Colonsay, Saskatchewan. Dedicating himself to a prairie-tuned understanding of Karl Marx, Mills joined the Farmers’ Union of Canada in 1924, later serving as Director of the United Farmers of Canada. From running as a Communist candidate in provincial politics to criticizing bureaucratic problems in farming co-operatives, the book depicts Mills as a self-educated man whose activities were a veritable manifesto on unionization and Marx’s thought. From his son's vantage point, Mills also appears as a dedicated father and husband who persevered through hardship.