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Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857–1868

David Wilson may just be Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s biggest fan. In the second volume of his biography (following 2008’s Thomas D’Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825–1857), Wilson shows how both McGee’s words and actions ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s

By Stuart Henderson

The Yorkville area of downtown Toronto was its own village in the 19th century, but got amalgamated into the city as the metropolis expanded northward. It remained a low-rent and low-rise area until discovered by ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

★ For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier

By Melanie Murray

By 2012, Canada’s combat role in Afghanistan will be over. The end of a nation’s involvement in combat activities forces a communal process of contextualizing and ultimately mythologizing the ordeal. Thus the importance of For ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

Ortona Street Fight

By Mark Zuehlke

Mark Zuehlke, one of the best-known chroniclers of Canadian military history, has found a new vehicle to tell the tale of Canada’s first major Second World War victory. But in the process he has been ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: History

As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier

By Gerry Fostaty

In the summer of 1974, a routine lecture on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec, went horribly awry. Somehow, a live grenade found its way into a box of teaching aids and exploded during ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: History

City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties

By Lawrence Aronsen

Lawrence Aronsen was a student activist in Vancouver during the 1960s. He’s now a professor of history at the University of Alberta. This combination makes him a logical person to write about the West Coast ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History

The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton

By Adrienne Shadd

By overlooking the lives and achievements of blacks in the larger story of Canada’s development, historians have done a disservice to the thousands of Africans who came to Hamilton beginning in the 1800s, when the ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History

★ Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright, Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior

By Julie Wheelwright

Julie Wheelwright’s Esther contains two parallel storylines. The first is a biography of the author’s ancestor, Esther Wheelwright, who was born into a strict Puritan family and eventually became a Catholic Mother Superior. The second ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History

No Lack of Courage: Operation Medusa, Afghanistan

By Colonel Bernd Horn

Readers of Canadian military history, as well as those with an interest in the Afghan conflict, will snap up No Lack of Courage, the first battle narrative written by a Canadian military historian. But the ... Read More »

April 6, 2011 | Filed under: History

Crawling from the Wreckage

By Gwynne Dyer

Gwynne Dyer is the author of books with titles like Future: Tense and The Mess They Made, so it comes as a surprise to open his new volume and read that, in 2010, the author’s ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

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Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857–1868

Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s

★ For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier

Ortona Street Fight

As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier

City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties

The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton

★ Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright, Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior

No Lack of Courage: Operation Medusa, Afghanistan

Crawling from the Wreckage

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