Canada’s History is proud to be a partner in the launch of the new History of Canada Series published under Penguin’s new non-fiction imprint Allen Lane Canada. Canada’s History magazine will be featuring excerpts from each book in the series inside future issues as well as providing opportunities for members of the society to attend launch events and meet with the authors.  

 

Our organization has always enjoyed strong working relationships with Canadian publishers whose titles we regularly feature in the book reviews pages of our magazine, and increasingly, in the wide range of online extensions we offer for our members.  Over the past five year’s we partnered with different publishing houses to produce and distribute our own non-fiction books including the For the Love of History : Pierre Berton Award Anthology (Random House), Those Earlier Hills: The Beaver collection of R.M. Patterson (Heritage House Publishing) and 100 Photos That Changed Canada (Harper Collins.)

 

But this will be the first time we’ve collaborated in a multi-year project with a publisher to bring current works of authors onto the pages of our magazine. We believe it’s a natural extension of our mission –providing readers with first access to fresh, factual, and engaging new content about our country’s past.  

 

From everything Diane Turbide has told us about the goals and expectations for this series, we know it’s sure to please.  Unlike Penguin’s recent Extraordinary Canadians series – The History of Canada books will be more thorough accounts, aimed at readers who already have a fairly strong base of knowledge about our history and are interested in taking a closer look at key events that have had a pivotal influence in shaping it.

 

Dan Snow’s Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of an Empire is the first title in the series, and will be included in our December/January issue of Canada’s History.  

 

Readers in the Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal areas have an opportunity to meet Dan Snow and other authors in the series at Allen Lane Canada’s launch parties happening this week.  Check our events listings for more details.