Posts Tagged ‘Canadian history’
Bestselling author decries ideological ‘history’
Canadians today “seem to have lost any sense of connection to our past.” So writes popular historian Stephen R. Bown in the C2C Journal. In an insightful article entitled Seeking the Ghosts that Keep us Alive, the author of The Company and Dominion argues that “our current national narrative holds that Canadian colonists were universally…
Read MoreDead Reckoning takes us into the secret life of maps
This glorious map turns up as endpapers in Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage. It was drawn by Dawn Huck, one of the principals at Heartland Associates in Winnipeg. I love the way it captures the discovery of the original Northwest Passage in three essential expeditions. The first, led by John Franklin,…
Read MoreAlmost incredibly, against all the odds, despite the forces arrayed against him, and in the face of conspiratorial resistance (you know who you are), Our Hero fights on!
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Read MoreTurns out history is happening in Canada. It’s the next big thing.
It’s not much to look at, this modest paperback, especially with the stickies hanging out the side. Oh, and the Toronto Public Library bar code laying across the first word of the title. But, well, dare I say it? I find Canadians and Their Pasts, an academic study by The Pasts Collective, subversive and exciting.…
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