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Book Review: Where New World Dreams excels is in the quality and quantity of its artwork. This coffee-table-sized book is chock full of posters, many in full colour, that advertise such alluring prospects as “Ready- Made Farms in Western Canada” and that encourage immigrants via appeals such as “Canada wants women for household work... Good wages, employment guaranteed.”

Mel Greif’s school is steeped in history. He engages his students in field trips, Confederation debates, simulations, an 1812 picnic and murder-mysteries based on local historic sites.

The arrival in 1862 of a ship full of single women eased the hearts of British Columbia’s lovesick bachelors — and lined the pockets of B.C.’s future premier.

Jennifer Moore Rattray is the chief operating officer at Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO). Jennifer served as executive director of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and was an award-winning television journalist. A proud member of Peepeekisis Cree Nation, she is one of the first Indigenous women to anchor the television news in Canada.

Fiction Feature: From his farm in Nova Scotia, Howard Dill created some of the biggest pumpkins the world had ever seen.

Discover the history, good and bad, of Canada’s federal elections in the September issue of Kayak.

Book review: Weaving Modernist Art skilfully recounts the excitement around textile arts as a form of creative expression through the postwar years into the 1960s and the “fibre revolution” of the seventies.

Q & A: Author and social-justice advocate Rosemary Sadlier looks back on her integral role in this significant national recognition.

Sixty creative, innovative and sometimes mind-boggling contributions Canadians have made to the world.