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

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.