History

Fortune Favours the Brave: Tales of Courage and Tenacity in Canadian Military History

“In the end, our nation’s military has always shown courage, tenacity, and daring.” Such is the thesis of Fortune Favours the Brave, edited by Colonel Bernd Horn, historian and deputy commander of Canada’s Special Operations ... Read More »

April 29, 2009 | Filed under: History

Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era

By Bryan D. Palmer

As Canadian baby boomers enter their senior years, we seem to have missed out on the U.S.’s apparently recession-proof cottage industry of books on the 1960s. Trent University professor and author Bryan D. Palmer attempts ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: History

As affecting the fate of my absent husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860

By Erika Behrisch Elce, ed.

Anyone interested in the history of Arctic exploration cannot fail to be drawn into the story of Sir John Franklin. With the fate of his last expedition unknown for over a decade, people around the ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: History

Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives It Ruled

By John DeMont

The way things are going these days, the market for books about declining industries may soon be a robust one. But before anyone drafts a pitch for a book on Southern Ontario’s vanishing automobile sector, ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: History

Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation

By Jonathan F. Vance

Unlikely Soldiers, by University of Western Ontario history professor Jonathan F. Vance, is the story of two young Canadians, Ken Macalister and Frank Pickersgill, who perished in the Second World War as agents of the ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: History

A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family’s Incredible Struggle for Freedom

By Bryan Prince

Describing the life of slaves in the antebellum U.S. is a monumental task. Bryan Prince, a Canadian descendant of slaves, tackles the subject by telling the true story of a single family: the Weemses of ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: History

This Island in Time: Remarkable Tales from Montreal’s Past

By John Kalbfleisch

John Kalbfleisch’s book delightfully documents Montreal’s beginnings as a religious mission, then charts its development all the way up to Expo ’67. In his introduction, Kalbfleisch, a reporter for Montreal’s Gazette, says that he views ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: History

Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Story of Louis Riel’s Grandmother

By Maggie Siggins

Marie-Anne Lagimodière is an excellent subject for a biography: she was the first white woman to follow her coureur de bois husband into the bush, she witnessed the war between the Hudson’s Bay Company and ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: History

Contact Charlie: A Canadian Infantry Company and the Battle of Panjwayi

By Chris Wattie

From May through August 2006, Canadian soldiers fought a running battle against Taliban insurgents in the Panjwayi district southwest of Kandahar, the Afghan provincial capital. In the most intense fighting the Canadian army has conducted ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: History

Running with Dillinger: The Story of Red Hamilton and Other Forgotten Canadian Outlaws

By Edward Butts

In his 2006 book The Desperate Ones, Guelph, Ontario, author Edward Butts chronicled the exploits of some famous – and some not-so-famous – Canadian criminals of years gone by. With his follow-up, Running with Dillinger, ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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