History

Future Tense: The Coming World Order

The growing space on bookstore shelves dedicated to events related to 9/11, Bush administration malfeasance, and the war in Iraq will benefit from Gwynne Dyer’s Future Tense, a good primer for the political novice gingerly ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

Great Canadian Speeches

By Dennis Gruending, ed.

Some speeches are great in their own right. Some are made great by circumstances. Both types are well represented in journalist and former member of Parliament Dennis Gruending’s new book. Gruending has collected and edited ... Read More »

December 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice

By Roy Miki

Poet, teacher, and social critic Roy Miki has done Canadian history a remarkable service with his poignant, insightful, and brutally honest recounting of the century-long struggle for Japanese-Canadian citizenship rights. Miki approaches the story of ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Heart So Hungry: The Extraordinary Expedition of Mina Hubbard into the Labrador Wilderness

By Randall Silvis

In Heart So Hungry, Pennsylvania author Randall Silvis takes Norman Mailer’s injunction that all writing is fiction to heart. The result, as Silvis admits, is a “hybrid of fact and fiction” based on a true ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Night Justice: The True Story of the Black Donnellys

By Peter Edwards

In the preface to Night Justice, Peter Edwards admits that although he grew up in “Donnelly country” in London, Ontario, all he knew about the notorious Irish-Canadian family was that they had been murdered by ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: The Story of Canada’s Secret War

By Carol Off

In one day in September 1993, in the process of aggressively shoring up the crumbling UN peacekeeping mission in Croatia, Canadian soldiers killed as many as 27 Croat soldiers in a series of firefights. Letting ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder

By Charlotte Gray

Photographic reproductions are common and precise enough these days to provoke disappointment when one finally stands amidst a jostling throng of tourists viewing the real Mona Lisa through several centimetres of bulletproof glass. The upside ... Read More »

October 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema

By George Melnyk

To casual observers, Canadian film must seem like an almost newborn art, with the country’s internationally acclaimed filmmakers – Egoyan, Cronenberg, Lepage, Arcand – all having emerged since the 1960s.Of course, this isn’t the case. ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: History

Wolfe & Montcalm: Their Lives, Their Times, and the Fate of a Continent

By Joy Carroll

The tale of General Wolfe scaling the Heights of Abraham to defeat Montcalm outside the gates of Quebec City has become a Canadian epic, but do we need another book on it? If it is ... Read More »

July 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

Prisoners of the North

By Pierre Berton

Pierre Berton’s 50th book continues his mission to popularize Canadian history. Like many of the other 49 books, Prisoners of the North is rooted in a northern theme and strong storytelling. The short biographies here ... Read More »

June 21, 2004 | Filed under: History

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