Artists and immigrants

Book Review: In John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year Canada was Cool, author and historian Greg Marquis captures a seminal moment in Canada’s socio-cultural development.

Book Review: According to Paul Litt, Trudeau was innately comfortable with the new requirements of television, and he was, willy-nilly, part of the new nationalism that was taking hold of urban, professional, managerial English Canada and that helped to catapult him to high office.

Open Book: An excerpt from the adventures of David Thompson in the Northwest between 1807 and 1812.

Book Review: As the highest point in Canada, Mount Logan in Yukon Territory has fascinated mountaineers for more than a century. In its story of the peak’s first ascent, Capturing the Summit takes a different tack from most, in that it follows the diaries of two men with very different roles on the 1925 Alpine Club of Canada expedition.