Not only was this Canadian's life story fictionalized for the film The King and I, Anna Leonowens was instrumental in the founding of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Book Review: In No Man’s Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton, Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon provide a rich biography of one woman who was compelled to paint the battlefields in the immediate aftermath of the First World War.
Book Review: Gregory S. Kealey argues that unwarranted and often-paranoid domestic surveillance and, at times, outright repression have very deep historical roots.
Book Review: In The Ghost Orchard: The Hidden History of the Apple in North America Helen Humphreys is inspired by the taste of wild apples found outside a log cabin near her home in Kingston, Ontario, to seek their largely unknown origins in terms of Indigenous peoples, women, and artists.
