Canadian Geographic celebrates the discovery of Franklin’s Erebus

The December issue of Canadian Geographic is billed as a “special collector’s edition,” and rightly so. It is built around the recent discovery of Erebus, the long-lost ship of Sir John Franklin, pictured above on the right. Contributors include John Geiger, Wade Davis, Leona Aglukkaq, Fergus Fleming, Noah Richler, Russell Potter and yours truly. Put…

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The TLS is hip to Toronto . . .

Turns out the TLS has a soft spot for Toronto. In an upbeat review of How the Scots Invented Canada, the London-based journal (Dec. 10) — no stranger to acerbic commentary — encapsulates my take on an early governor-general. It then says that John Buchan’s words, “as McGoogan notes in this enjoyable book, show that…

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