Posted by Aymen Saidane on
Over 3,500 books, or a million pages ago, our (still!) proudly independent house started with humble origins: in 1973, Jack David, a grad student at York University, found out there was funding available for the English Graduate Students Association. Using some of this funding, Jack published the first issue of a journal, Essays on Canadian Writing, in 1974. The journal grew and thrived, leading to the incorporation of Essays on Canadian Writing Limited by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1977. In 2003, Robert would sell his shares to Jack, and one year later, David Caron joined ECW as...