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Reading List: Recent creative writing about Canadian history

Canada’s first census was launched in 1666, but it took three hundred years to be truly completed — by a rebel historian who championed Quebec’s Quiet Revolution.

Book Review: The book Unsettling Spirit: A Journey into Decolonization invites readers to pursue an uncomfortable examination of Canadian colonial history and culture.

Fiction Feature: It’s 1880, and Calixa Lavallée is about to introduce “O Canada” in Quebec City. The original French words by Adolphe-Basile Routhier will stand, but who will get to decide what will be sung in English?

Guest editor Magda Fahrni reflects on the importance of preserving, conserving, restoring, and showcasing the objects that have marked our past.

Raised in the studio

Creative experimentalist

Book Review: It may not be immediately evident from the title, but this book feels current. The social-justice issues raised a century ago by visionary reformer Alfred Fitzpatrick have evolved, yet they’re still alive today. The fundraising challenges, personality conflicts, and power struggles of the past would be familiar to contemporary social activists.

See what’s available in the October-November 2022 issue of Canada’s History.

Students will utilize and connect their snapshots of twentieth century Canadian history to one of the Historical Thinking Concepts.