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Knights of the Air: Canadian Fighter Pilots in the First World War

By Lieutenant-Colonel David L. Bashow

The fighter pilots of 1914-1918 were the heroes of a war that was unusually lacking in obvious heroes. They fought in single combat above the anonymous muddy slaughter of the Western Front, and a disproportionate ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: History

A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas

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Anyone with an interest in the history of the West Coast or in aboriginal culture will delight in A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas. The atlas is a thoroughly researched study offering both raw data and ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence

By Phil Jenkins

Phil Jenkins, a musician, freelance writer, and author of An Acre of Time, has a passion for the St. Lawrence. In his latest book, River Song, he indulges that passion to tell the mighty river’s ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Quebec: A Tale of Love

By Laurier LaPierre

Quebec: A Tale of Love is Laurier LaPierre’s attempt at explaining the current state of Quebec and how it got that way. A historian and broadcaster, LaPierre has written several books about his native province. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada

By George Bowering

Not so many years ago, when Brian Mulroney led this country into yet another of his misbegotten constitutional adventures, The Globe and Mail ran an editorial reminding readers that Canada was a country-in-progress. We all ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Jan Wong’s China: Reports from a Not-So-Foreign Correspondent

Jan Wong may be her own worst enemy. Anyone not familiar with her work as The Globe and Mail’s talented Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994 should be; otherwise they may dismiss her as the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Unsung Courage: 20 Stories of Canadian Valour and Sacrifice

By Arthur Bishop

As we push further into the 21st century, Canada’s Second World War veterans are sliding ever more quickly into extinction. Once they are gone, how will they be remembered? Arthur Bishop’s new book goes a ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Franklin Conspiracy: Cover-up, Betrayal, and the Astonishing Secret Behind the Lost Arctic Expedition

By Jeffrey Blair Latta

In The Franklin Conspiracy, popular-science writer and playwright Jeffrey Blair Latta attempts to add John Franklin’s lost 1845 Arctic expedition to the list of conspiracy theories that include the Roswell aliens and the assassination of ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Highlights: An Illustrated History of Cannabis

By Carol Sherman, Andrew Smith, and Erik Tanner

In an age of fancy drugs that make you happy or hard or want to dance all night, old Mary Jane has been displaced from the pharmaceutical spotlight. But if Highlights: An Illustrated History of ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada’s Leaders

By J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer

Repeat after me. Canadian history isn’t boring; Canadian historians are boring. Most of them, anyway. As Will Ferguson amply illustrates in his survey of Canada’s glorious leaders past and present, Bastards & Boneheads, the history ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: History

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