Book Review: Neville Thompson makes clear in his book The Third Man, it was William Lyon Mackenzie King’s conviction that the purpose of his life was to bring Britain and the United States into “close harmony.”
Fiction Feature: Two men built the residential school system that harmed so many Indigenous people. One man spoke up and was ignored. Their reputations have reversed over the past century. All three lie in Ottawa’s Beechwood Cemetery.
Book Review: Jean Teillet’s story of the Métis is framed around five resistances, which are set against the backdrop of events leading up to the creation of the Canadian state.
Fiction Feature: Three kids pester their aunt about a question they can’t agree on. Should the bear or the groundhog be the official animal they look to for answers on Feb. 2? In 1908, it still wasn’t clear which Canada would end up choosing.
Book Review: The book Montréal Capital City leads to an ironic realization: If anglophone Montrealers hadn’t destroyed a great building that had been largely their own creation, Montreal might still be the nation’s capital today — and our political evolution would look very different indeed.
