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One Day in August

Book Review: David O’Keefe takes a completely different approach to the Dieppe landing. With significant new evidence in hand, O’Keefe seeks to reframe the entire raid within the context of the secret naval intelligence war being fought against Nazi Germany.


Cold War Score

Members of Team Canada escort Alan Eagleson to the team bench after his scuffle with Soviet police during game eight of the Summit Series in Moscow on September 28, 1972.


Backs to the Wall

Book Review: Every student of Canadian history learns at one time or another that in September 1759 the British led by James Wolfe defeated the French under the command of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.


White Settler Reserve

Book Review: In a mad rush to settle the “untamed” West following the Hudson’s Bay Company’s surrender of Rupert’s Land and the creation of Manitoba, the federal government began a systematic, albeit at times misguided, attempt to populate this newly acquired territory with “desirables.”


Camelot and Canada

Book Review: John F. Kennedy knew little about Canada before becoming the United States president in 1960, other than that his northern neighbour was a loyal ally.


Canada's Dream Shall Be of Them

Book Review: To visit the First Word War cemeteries along the Western Front, or in the hundreds of other locations around the world, is to feel the grief of silenced and shattered dreams. 


Thou Shalt Do No Murder

Book Review: In 1923, three Inuit men were put on trial at Pond Inlet, on Baffin island, for the killing of qallunaat (white) trader Robert Janes.


People of Progress

Canadians who have changed the world.


The Captain Was a Doctor

Book Review: The Captain Was a Doctor: The Long War and Uneasy Peace of POW John Reid


Connecting Canadians through Projet Portage

The Molson Foundation’s bold initiative shares French-Canadian history with new audiences.