Reviews

The Sojourn

Young Ramsey Crome is a Canadian private mired in the trenches of the First World War. Knee deep in mud, surrounded by exploding shells and dying friends, he’s certain he will be blown to bits ... Read More »

April 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Allowances, Dollars and Sense: A Proven System for Teaching Your Kids About Money

By Paul W. Lermitte

Instilling the value of money and establishing a grounding in sound financial principles at an early age is probably one of the most important lessons parents can provide for their children. Just how to provide ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Hockey’s Golden Era: Stars of the Original Six

By Mike Leonetti

To Canadians in the 1930s and 1940s listening to Foster Hewitt call the play-by-play, hockey must have seemed invented for radio. As families huddled around their consoles, the chaotic beauty of the game came alive ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Shooting Stars: Photographs from the Portnoy Collection at the Hockey Hall of Fame

By Andrew Podnieks

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Etched in Ice: A Tribute to Hockey’s Defining Moments

By Michael McKinley

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Top 100 Nhl Players of All Time

By Steve Dryden, ed.

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Encyclopaedia of the First Peoples of North America

By Rayna Green and Melanie Fernandez

There’s a lot to appreciate about this single-volume encyclopedia. It’s topical, attractively designed, and loaded with more than 270 quality photographs. Published originally as The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America, this re-titled Canadian ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The Encyclopedia of British Columbia

By Daniel Francis, ed.

The product of more than 10 years of work and almost a million dollars of funding, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia (EBC) arrives with a high level of expectation that editor Daniel Francis has managed ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The War of 1812

By Victor Suthren

It’s what we do as Canadians: forget our history just as fast as we accumulate it. Jack Granatstein and the Dominion Institute have been telling us that for a couple of years now. Maybe you ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Film Encyclopedia

By Ephraim Katz

A few years ago, as far as mainstream critics were concerned, all of Western culture could be neatly divided into two camps. There was Art – “serious” poetry, painting, music, and film – and there ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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