Book Review: Graham D. Taylor’s comprehensive history Imperial Standard offers a rare look inside the growth and evolution of Canada’s oil-and-gas industry and the more than 130-year-old company that led it.
Book review: The capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 is the defining battle of Canada’s Great War. The erection of the country’s national memorial on those shell-cratered heights, unveiled in 1936 before thousands of veterans, contributed to the legend of Vimy as a critical moment in the country’s history.
Book review: E.J. Hughes is known across Canada for his landscape and seascape paintings, especially of British Columbia. However, before he became a celebrated artist, he served as one of Canada’s official war artists during the Second World War.
Book review: Jason Wilson and Richard M. Reid’s Famous for a Time is an engaging and accessible anthology that explores the lives of some of Canada’s most remarkable athletes from the 1800s and the first part of the twentieth century, including the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games.
Book review: Tom Langford documents the slow but relentless decline of Alberta and BC's coal-mining towns in this insider’s view of the communities that struggled to survive deindustrialization and the move toward cleaner sources of energy.
In this digital media-rich series of individual and team-based activities, students address the concept of national security in historical and contemporary contexts.
