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Play Ball, Eh?

Nine innings of stories you’ve probably never heard about baseball in Canada. 


War and Peace in the Classroom

In this guide, educators share how they teach war and peace in the classroom, including advice, online resources, books, and lesson plans.


Canada's Silk Road

From the Orient to New York via Vancouver, precious silk could only be transported one way — by rail. For Canadian railways, every minute counted.


Where Have We Been and Where Do We Go From Here?

Penney Clark explores influences on history education in Canada at the first Canada’s History Forum in 2007.


Spying Goes to College

For the RCMP after the war, communists were the subversives. But when dissent flowered in the 1960s, the Mounties were flummoxed.


Painters Eleven: Art Shock in Toronto

A collection of Canadian modernist painters brought abstract expressionism to a city and country that often didn’t want to see it.


The Bear Facts

Winnie the bear is only one of the many members of the ursine family who have found their place in the annals of Canadian history.


Tragedy at Dieppe

Book Review: Zuehlke’s self-described “you are there” style succeeds in putting readers into the horror of the Dieppe landing. The graphic accounts of Canadian soldiers slaughtered helplessly on the beaches at Dieppe and the surrounding towns are troubling and horrifying.


Hockey’s National Dream

A look at the priest behind the men’s Olympic team, and other recently released books.


Mad Men of Expo

Selling Montreal’s fair to the world was hard, but selling it to the Canadian public was harder.