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Hitler’s Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold and the Crusade for Justice

Even more than 50 years after the end of the Second World War, Jewish concentration camp victims cannot find justice, cannot get back their possessions. As Isabel Vincent explains in the first Canadian book on ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: History

Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story

By Michael Harris

Journalist Michael Harris’s investigation of the crisis in Canada’s Atlantic fishery is a keen indictment of government bureaucracy, bunglings, and hidebound ideas. It’s also extremely timely with the just released report of the Committee on ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: History

Legends of Our Times: Native Cowboy Life

By Leslie Tepper and Morgan Baillargeon

I played cowboys and Indians as a child growing up in the Six Nations of the Grand River community in the 1960s. Few of my friends wanted to be the cowboy: “There are no Indian ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney

By Michael Dawson

The Mountie is a bizarre and paradoxical figure in the Canadian imagination. On one hand there is the picture-postcard image of a fearless red-suited horseman, steadfastly loyal and lantern-jawed, who always gets his man. And ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: History

Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada

By W.H. New

Do Canadians think of themselves only in terms of northern limits, oceanic rims, and the 49th parallel? Do they see the Canada-U.S. border as simply a line to cross in order to enjoy a commerce ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology During the Second World War

By Donald H. Avery

Canada was no scientific powerhouse at the beginning of the Second World War. Industrial research was almost non-existent, the scientific facilities at the nation’s few universities were small, underfunded, and ill equipped. Aside from the ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: History

Busted! Nova Scotia’s War on Drugs

By Vernon Oickle

As a reporter for a weekly newspaper on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Vernon Oickle became increasingly aware of the expansion of the drug trade in the region. His research into the situation produced Busted! Nova ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: History

1967: The Last Good Year

By Pierre Berton

Despite the bitter nostalgia of its title, reading Pierre Berton’s 42nd book is an exhilarating experience. 1967: The Last Good Year captures the coast-to-coast orgy of celebration that marked Canada’s 100th birthday. True to his ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century

By George Melnyk

The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two offers an authoritative and balanced history of the Alberta literary and publishing world. Calgary writer and historian George Melnyk chronicles the recent past with a scholar’s caution, as ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: History

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

By Howard Margolian

Howard Margolian, author of Conduct Unbecoming, which told the story of the murder of Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy in 1944, turns his attention to refuting the common perception that Canada was a haven ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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Hitler’s Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold and the Crusade for Justice

Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story

Legends of Our Times: Native Cowboy Life

The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney

Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada

The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology During the Second World War

Busted! Nova Scotia’s War on Drugs

1967: The Last Good Year

The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century

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

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