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History Spotlight: Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Who was the man who became Canada’s seventh prime minister?


Arming and Disarming

Book Review: In Arming and Disarming, Blake Brown undertakes a thorough review of the history of gun control in Canada and explodes the myth that we have never been as gunloving as our American neighbours.


2009 Canada's History Forum

Should you trust your history teacher? History Forum challenges what we know as Canadians.


Developing a Strong Constitution

Ensconced in a document that is over thirty-five years old, our nation’s acts, traditions, and conventions are fortified by their amend-ability. 


The Promise of Canada

Book Review: At the heart of this book are nine personalities who, in Gray’s opinion, had an outsized impact on Canadian values and consciousness, though not all are at the top of our history who’s who.


Legacy

Book Review: This book invites dissent. Why were these thirteen individuals, and not others, chosen for a book of profiles of French Canadians who had “shaped North America”?


Holding the Fort

A century ago, the federal government protected a fort in Nova Scotia and launched Canada’s national historic sites system.


Wildlife, Land, and People

Book Review: Even with my interest in natural history, I didn’t expect to find this five-hundred-plus-page tome all that engaging, given the dry title. Yet I found myself drawn in to Wetherell’s accessible, sometimes-passionate, always measured writing style.


Canada's Odyssey

Book Review: Few scholars possess as broad a range as Russell, who combines a deep interest and knowledge of Canadian history with a sense of humility about how much more there is to know. 


February-March 2018

See what’s available in the February-March 2018 issue of Canada’s History magazine.