Shooting Stars: Photographs from the Portnoy Collection at the Hockey Hall of Fame

To Canadians in the 1930s and 1940s listening to Foster Hewitt call the play-by-play, hockey must have seemed invented for radio. As families huddled around their consoles, the chaotic beauty of the game came alive ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Hockey’s Golden Era: Stars of the Original Six

By Mike Leonetti

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Encyclopaedia of the First Peoples of North America

By Rayna Green and Melanie Fernandez

There’s a lot to appreciate about this single-volume encyclopedia. It’s topical, attractively designed, and loaded with more than 270 quality photographs. Published originally as The British Museum Encyclopaedia of Native North America, this re-titled Canadian ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The Encyclopedia of British Columbia

By Daniel Francis, ed.

The product of more than 10 years of work and almost a million dollars of funding, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia (EBC) arrives with a high level of expectation that editor Daniel Francis has managed ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The War of 1812

By Victor Suthren

It’s what we do as Canadians: forget our history just as fast as we accumulate it. Jack Granatstein and the Dominion Institute have been telling us that for a couple of years now. Maybe you ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: History

Seen That, Now What?

By Andrea Shaw

A few years ago, as far as mainstream critics were concerned, all of Western culture could be neatly divided into two camps. There was Art – “serious” poetry, painting, music, and film – and there ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Reference