All ’Bout Canada Quiz

What seemed like a golden opportunity for ranchers in the 1880s soured when the chinook winds failed to arrive in the winters of 1886–87 and 1906–7.

Book Review: The year 2017 marks the centenary of Tom Thomson’s death. Interest in his iconic art has always been equalled by fascination with his rugged backwoods life and speculation about his mysterious death. In 2010, a Globe and Mail headline referred to him as “Canada’s Van Gogh,” with all the mesmerizing — and sometimes misleading — mythologizing that implies.

Book Review: The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness is a compelling account of society’s assumptions about disability and the assertion of deaf rights.

Book Review: Illustrated with hundreds of photos, It’s Our Game explores three main periods: up to 1945, 1946 to 1983, and 1984 to the present. One hundred brief chapters are presented in chronological order. They cover topics ranging from hockey during the war years, to The Hockey Handbook — which changed how the sport was conceived and taught — to Canada’s women’s team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.