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Book Review: Ken Cuthbertson foreshadows Canada’s postwar future in his meticulously researched book 1945.

Reading List: Canadian history books for younger readers

Book Review: It’s hard to think of a building that would have more or better tales to tell than Pier 21 in Halifax.

Book Review: At the Ocean’s Edge brings fresh eyes to the story of the province of Nova Scotia.

Book Review: The Captain Was a Doctor: The Long War and Uneasy Peace of POW John Reid

Canadian teenager pays tribute to family flying ace in new graphic novel set during the Second World War.

See what’s available in the June-July 2022 issue of Canada’s History.

Creative experimentalist

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 2011, on the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong, we revisited the terrible fate of the Canadians who were sent to protect the British colony.