here should be more books like this: amiable, interesting, fun to read; a blend of memoir and history and social ...
By Dane Lanken
Non-Fiction
Elizabeth Hillman Waterston was preparing for her first semester at McGill University in 1939 when Britain declared war on Germany.
By Kate Forrest
n 1904, sixteen Canadian women set out on the Canadian Pacific Railway to the St. Louis World’s Fair. Dubbed ...
By Anna Leventhal
Sara Ferdman Tauben is the archaeologist who stays at the dig after all the others have gone home.
By Leila Marshy
The Canadian Führer explores the life and impact of a virulent anti-Semite, Adrien Arcand (1899–1967). Now largely forgotten, Arcand achieved notoriety during the 1930s as the charismatic head of a series of far-right organizations and newspapers.
By Jean Coléno
By the 1880s, Germany had a polar station at Qingua, at the deepest point of Cumberland Sound, and the Germans were fascinated by all things Arctic.
By Katia Grubisic
Christian Nadeau is hardly the first person to criticize Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party for their efforts to steer Canada in a more right-wing direction, nor is he the first to claim that the Harper government has scorned this country’s democratic traditions.
By Jean Coléno
Constant Internet access has, for many, displaced an indispensable part of our thinking. As soon as a fact is in dispute, out comes the smartphone, and – ta-dah! Yet we remember nothing. Even worse, our interest in intellectual questions seems to have flagged.
By Eric Boodman
The author and her husband, and sometimes the kids and the in-laws, mostly went to Florida for a few weeks in wintertime. If that sounds thin, perhaps it is. But the “adventures” here are so fondly recalled, and related with such naturalness, that things are nicely thickened up and it’s hard not to cheer the little adventurers on.
By Dane Lanken
The original power couple, Georges and Pauline Vanier partook in – or were close observers of – many of the great events of the early twentieth century. “I ask only to serve,” was their personal as well as public maxim.
By Leila Marshy
There is something comical in journalist William Marsden’s description of the 2009 Copenhagen summit. In the opening chapters of Fools Rule, he unpacks the proceedings of the two-week conference and lays out an absurdist labyrinth of greed, mistrust, and simple bureaucratic idiocy.
By Sarah Fletcher
This is the kind of book I would love to be excited about. Casselman’s prose is full of righteous anger, directed at the numberless tentacles of patriarchy that have limited women’s social, economic, sexual, and personal freedom.
By Anna Leventhal