Bastards & Boneheads: Our Glorious Leaders, Past and Present

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

Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in Our History

By Margaret Atwood et al

A dozen of this country’s writers were asked to respond to the question “What are the great events in Canadian history?” by writing an original story that would incorporate a key historical episode that helped ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon’s Forgotten Soldiers, 1809-1814

By Denis Smith

Hidden in a pine forest on the island of Cabrera near Majorca, a “stubby obelisque” pays silent homage to the memory of the thousands of Frenchmen who died there. The monument is dated 1847 but ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: History

University of Toronto: A History

By Martin Friedland

In the bowels of U of T’s rare books library are many leather-bound, Atlas-sized volumes of media clippings on Nobel Prize winner Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin. Banting made his secretary locate these media ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: History

Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta

By Aritha van Herk

Mavericks, the fifth instalment in Penguin Canada’s provincial histories series, is a strange beast. Each chapter tackles a different subject in an episodic, mostly chronological format, but the history is decidedly untraditional in that it ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: History

Hope: Adventures of a Diamond

By Marian Fowler

The Hope diamond has a Zelig-like habit of surfacing in the most storied and fantastical chapters in history, including the first Western forays to India, the court of the Sun King at Versailles, and the ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: History

Moose Jaw: People Places History

By John Larsen and Maurice Richard Libby

Few Canadian cities are as tightly bound to a single historical decision as Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. When John A. MacDonald mandated the building of a coast-to-coast railroad in the mid-19th century, many believed the new ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: History

Power and Greed

By Philippe Gigantes

Philippe Gigantes, a Greek-born Canadian journalist, political commentator, and senior civil servant in Trudeau’s government, offers a thought-provoking and accessible survey of world history in his new book, Power and Greed. As the title suggests, ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Ten Portraits

By Allan Levine

Detailed accounts of Jewish pain and suffering stretch back to the biblical book of Lamentations. Reading Jewish history can often seem like an exercise in pain management, and yet such works continue to shed light ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

Imperial Legend: The Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I

By Alexis Troubetzkoy

Did Tsar Alexander the First, the absolute ruler of 44 million people, vanquisher of Napoleon, and one of the most powerful men in Europe, throw it all away to become a wandering, penniless penitent? If ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

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Bastards & Boneheads: Our Glorious Leaders, Past and Present

Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in Our History

The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon’s Forgotten Soldiers, 1809-1814

University of Toronto: A History

Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta

Hope: Adventures of a Diamond

Moose Jaw: People Places History

Power and Greed

Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Ten Portraits

Imperial Legend: The Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I

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