Laurier LaPierre starts this book from a laudable premise: that Laurier was a great Canadian, and that his fight for Canada has meaning for our own time. The book reflects the strengths and excesses of ... Read More »
March 9, 2004 | Filed under: History
This transformation tale, one of the most popular stories among the Haida, Tlingit, and other Pacific Northwest coastal tribes, is retold here with careful attention to detail. Author Barbara Diamond Goldin first heard this legend ... Read More »
March 7, 2004 | Filed under: History
In the wake of the startling 1995 Quebec referendum, Jean Chrétien’s Liberals faced some tough questions. Who devised the strategy that led to such a narrow win? Why was the strength of the sovereigntist movement ... Read More »
March 7, 2004 | Filed under: History
Immediately following the collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union, newspapers and television news overflowed with the “firsts” of Russian capitalism – the well-stocked outdoor markets, McDonald’s restaurants, a “free” press, outstanding jazz, the ... Read More »
March 7, 2004 | Filed under: History
May this book spawn others like it, for what a little gem it is. Five years ago Phil Jenkins penned Fields of Vision, a bittersweet chronicle of life on Canada’s family farms and a book that ... Read More »
March 5, 2004 | Filed under: History
The “ragged place” in Terry Glavin’s splendid book is British Columbia. Not glossy downtown Vancouver or the clipped precincts of Victoria, but the sloughs and inlets and broken volcanic valleys located at the edges of ... Read More »
March 5, 2004 | Filed under: History
Call my reaction post-referendum, but William Weintraub’s account of the life and times of Montreal during its heyday reads like a sweet dream. How wonderful to spend several hours in the company of Canada’s most ... Read More »
March 5, 2004 | Filed under: History
Although a product of one of the harshest climates on the planet, Inuit culture is playful. Howard Norman’s anthology of folktales captures the richness of Inuit imagination and humour. Five of these stories were collected ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History
If there is a thin thread that connects these two books it is the railroad. And that’s what tied Canada together soon after Confederation; Maritime entry was induced by the promise of the Inter-Colonial Railway, ... Read More »
March 3, 2004 | Filed under: History
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