Howie Morenz was ranked by The Hockey News as the 15th best player in hockey history. Yet, with all that accomplished during his life, he is still more commonly known for his untimely death.
The award is presented annually to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past.
In this episode, we spoke with teachers who are using interdisciplinary approaches to help their students engage critically and creatively with history.
Book review: Allan Levine has hit the bull’s-eye with his account of how business leaders were recruited to Ottawa to assist the massive government effort that supported Canada and its Allies during the Second World War.
Book Review: In Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities, historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead offers a finely crafted and carefully researched glimpse into the lives of slaves who fled the fledgling United States as Britain’s last stronghold, in New York, began to crumble.
Book Review: Financial equalization, providing similar levels of public services at similar levels of taxation, is Canada’s main solution to spreading wealth between have and have-not provinces.
Book Review: At a time when the role of the British monarchy has once again come into question in Canada, Canadian Spy Story offers interesting historical background about a period when a small group of committed Irish nationalists swam against the Loyalist tide and sought to draw Canada into the uprising against British rule.
