Martha Gellhorn was born in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri, and almost immediately was desperate to be somewhere else. She left for France in 1930 and embarked on a 60-year career as a foreign correspondent ... Read More »
In the 1960s, eight people – Jackie English, Jacqueline Dunleavy, Lynda White, Soraya O’Connell, Frankie Jensen, Scott Leishman, Helga Beer, and Bruce Stapylton – were murdered in and around the city of London, Ontario. To ... Read More »
Charlotte Gray spends the first part of her book about the murder of early 20th-century millionaire Harry Oakes describing how many books have already been written about the murder of Harry Oakes. And to tell ... Read More »
Chop Suey Nation, by Globe and Mail food writer Ann Hui, is an entertaining look at how Chinese food evolved to become quintessentially Canadian. Hui tells her "sweet and sour story" via a cross-country road ... Read More »
June 24, 2019 | Filed under: History
In the movie Event Horizon, the crew of a rescue vessel is dispatched to the far reaches of space to investigate the eponymous ship, which vanished without a trace and has reappeared as mysteriously. It ... Read More »
Histories of Europe in 1930 often focus on the road to war – knowing what is to come means it can be hard to look at this time through any other lens. In 1930: Europe ... Read More »
“A people’s memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.” This epigraph, from Yiddish author Isaac Leib Peretz, speaks to the provenance of ... Read More »
November 26, 2018 | Filed under: History
In 1936, Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum purchased 10th-century Norse relics from Eddy Dodd, a prospector who said he’d uncovered them on his mining plot in Beardmore, Ontario. The relics were displayed in the museum as ... Read More »
September 13, 2018 | Filed under: History
On May 16–17, 1943, the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron flew on a mission to destroy dams in Germany’s Ruhr River Valley. Twenty-nine of those 133 men, nicknamed “dam busters,” were Canadian. While the raid ... Read More »
August 9, 2018 | Filed under: History
Breaking up might be hard to do, but it certainly isn’t hard to read about in Kelli María Korducki’s debut non-fiction title, the latest in Coach House Books’ Exploded Views series. Hard to Do turns ... Read More »
May 31, 2018 | Filed under: History, Social Sciences
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