Ortona Street Fight

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

How the Scots Invented Canada

By Ken McGoogan

Since the 1700s, the Scots have had a profound influence worldwide, as American author Arthur Herman emphatically argued in his 2001 book, How the Scots Invented the Modern World. So why do we need another ... Read More »

January 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie

By Tim Cook

Sir Sam Hughes and Sir Arthur Currie, lifted out of obscurity by the First World War, occupy very different places in the pantheon of great Canadians. Hughes – the abrasive, unstable Minister of Militia and ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

A Line in the Sand: Canadians at War in Kandahar

By Captain Ray Wiss

Captain Ray Wiss is a hero. An emergency-room physician in his late forties, Wiss has twice volunteered to leave his practice and family to participate in four-month rotations on Canadian Forces’ forward operating bases in ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: History

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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

How the Scots Invented Canada

The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie

A Line in the Sand: Canadians at War in Kandahar

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