Tom Monto is the author of Old Strathcona Edmonton's Southside Roots and a book on Alberta politics Protest and Progress, Three Labour Radicals in Early Edmonton, outlining the life (lives) and times of farm leader Rice Sheppard, reformer/teacher Harry Ainlay and lawyer/"troublemaker" Margaret Crang. Another recent publication is A Brief History of Alberta Politics, emphasizing the province's progressive politics pre-WWII/Big Oil.