If hockey is Canada’s international sport, mining is Canada’s international industry. But while scores of picture books have honoured our hockey greats, the haunting visual legacy of mining has largely been neglected. That is, until now. Photographer Louie Palu and writer Charlie Angus’s Industrial Cathedrals of the North brings together the motley histories of active and abandoned mining headframes in Northern Ontario and Quebec, complemented by grainy black and white Karshesque photos. Text in both official languages tells the stories of the local communities that formed and folded around mines, and of the gold, copper, nickel, cobalt, platinum, and other minerals extracted from deep within the earth.