If Canadians rarely hear about the International Joint Commission, it may be because this institution has been quiet yet effective in its job of settling potentially explosive cross-border disputes.
Book Review: Calixa Lavallée was one of early Canada’s finest musical figures. Despite this, he remains an obscure figure within our national history. He is best remembered, when remembered at all, as the composer of “O Canada.” Author Brian Christopher Thompson aims to clarify who Lavallée was as well as the nature of his life’s work.
Book review: The War in the Woods of the 1980s and 1990s pitted the government of British Columbia against the First Nations of Meares Island, B.C., in a battle over Indigenous rights to the land and its resources.
Book Review: Frances Backhouse has blended natural history, anthropology, science, and adventure into a compelling account of our national symbol. In Once They Were Hats, she sketches the role of beavers within First Peoples’ cultures, and she discusses the beaver’s importance as a keystone species.
