Book Review: In Monty and the Canadian Army, John A. English, a former officer in the Canadian Forces and the author of several books of military history, explores Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery’s interactions with the Canadian military.
Book Review: Before automobile and airplane travel opened the country to mass tourism, outside views of Canada were limited to the art and prose of predominantly British and American landscape painters and travel writers.
After being served an eviction notice by their property owner, the Canadian Air & Space Museum has launched a campaign to save the museum, and the historic building it's housed in.
Book Review: One is drawn into the pages of Canadian Folk Art to 1950 by its delightful cover, which shows a detail of a circa-1850 game board with a hunter and his dog painted in flat blocks of muted colour. On the first inside page, a couple gingerly holding hands is part of carved diorama. And thus starts the reader’s journey into the remarkable world of Canadian folk art.
In this lesson, students will use the historical thinking concepts to analyze the ways in which Canada’s identity developed through language, culture, and the growth of immigrant communities.
Hunter Waytt, a grade 11 student at St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, reflects on his 2017 visit to First and Second World War sites in France and Belgium.
