History

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

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

★ Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin

By Ken McGoogan

Journalist and novel writer Ken McGoogan originally envisioned the material for Fatal Passage as a novel, but his research turned up such a fascinating story that he felt it would be better told as non-fiction. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

Juno: Canadians At D-Day June 6, 1944

By Ted Barris

History often seems inevitable. Sixty years after the fact, when thinking about victory in the Second World War, we point to American industry, British pluck, the endless Russian steppe, and, yes, Canadian determination, and say ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ Field of Glory: The Battle of Crysler’s Farm, 1813

By Donald E. Graves

On a rainy November day in 1813, a greatly outnumbered army of British soldiers, supported by a few Canadian militia and 30 Mohawk warriors, stood on the muddy fields of John Crysler’s farm on the ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: History

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