History

Eminent Canadians: Candid Tales of Then and Now

A decade ago, I suggested to my agent that I should do a book called “Eminent Canadians,” a Lytton Strachey-like job on the rich and powerful. Deflate the pompous and savage the powerful, in other ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Frederick Street: Living and Dying on Canada’s Love Canal

By Maude Barlow and Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May, head of the Sierra Club of Canada, and Maude Barlow, chair of the citizen’s lobby group The Council of Canadians, have written an informative and sometimes shocking account of government bungling in regulating, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars

By Stephen O’Shea

Making a modern reader care about a 13th-century heretical sect and its destruction is not an easy task, but journalist and translator Stephen O’Shea manages it effortlessly in his new book.The Cathars rose to prominence ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

To Match a Dream: A Practical Guide to the History and Histrionics of Canada’s Constitution

By Deborah Coyne and Michael Valpy

Michael Valpy and Deborah Coyne tackle one of Canada’s most daunting subjects – the Constitution – in To Match a Dream. It’s an ambitious project, filled with plenty of potential narrative peril. On one side ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: History

Unauthorized Entry: The Truth About Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946–1956

By Howard Margolian

History matters. When a 1986 royal commission examined the question of war criminals in Canada, it based much of its evidence and many of its conclusions and recommendations on a report by Alti Rodal. But ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: History

Victory at Falaise: The Soldiers’ Story

By Brigadier General Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker,with Terry Copp

The Whitakers are the authors of several books of military history, including Dieppe: From Tragedy to Triumph. In Victory at Falaise, aided by military historian Terry Copp, they examine the Battle of Falaise, which ended ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: History

Whose National Security: Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies

By Gary Kinsman, Dieter K. Buse, Mercedes Steedman, eds.

Last May’s revelation that Ottawa’s Human Resources Department had a supercomputer with personal information on over 30 million Canadians proved scandalous, yet it was no aberration. The collection of information on Canadians is as common ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: History

Canada: A People’s History (Volume One)

By Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon

The English writer Saki quipped that the people of Crete have always made more history than they can consume locally. In Canada, there are those who’ll argue that we go the other way, and that ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

T’aal: The One Who Takes Bad Children

By Sue Pielle with Anne Cameron, Greta Guzek, illus.

This collaborative effort by writer Anne Cameron and native Sliammon storyteller Sue Pielle is the tale of a terrifying giant who preys on children who disobey their parents by staying out after dark. The One ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: History

Our Century: The Canadian Journey in the Twentieth Century

By Robert Bothwell and J.L. Granatstein

Robert Bothwell, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, and J.L. Granatstein, the former director of the Canadian War Museum, are both respected authors of Canadian history books. In Our Century, they combine ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

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