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
Vancouver’s Downtown eastside might qualify as ground zero for drug addiction in Canada – the locus for everything from heroin and crack cocaine to crystal meth, Oxycontin, and fentanyl. Travis Lupick, a journalist with experience ... Read More »
January 12, 2018 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs
On March 15, 1920, Robert Janes was shot and killed on Baffin Island. The man who killed him was Nuqallaq, an Inuk. Neither Nuqallaq nor the witnesses to the killing ever denied these basic facts. ... Read More »
November 15, 2017 | Filed under: History, Native Peoples
The Arctic adventures of explorers like Sir John Franklin are familiar to the many Canadians who harbour a seemingly insatiable interest in the discovery of the Northwest Passage. But for every white man obsessed with ... Read More »
October 2, 2017 | Filed under: History
On February 17, 2013, five men set out from Woods Harbour, Nova Scotia, aboard a 12-metre fishing boat called the Miss Ally. Despite a non-functional spotlight and warnings that a massive winter storm was approaching, ... Read More »
July 4, 2017 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography
Clad in wool and plaid, pumpkin spice latte in hand, we might find our yearly autumnal excursion to the apple orchard not quite the same after reading Helen Humphreys’s latest book, a fascinating glimpse into ... Read More »
June 22, 2017 | Filed under: Food & Drink, History
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