The Saskatchewan city is encouraging visitors to explore its rum-running tunnel legacy. But is the tunnel lore based in fact? Or, is it an urban legend?
Arsenic and no trace. But that all changed when forensic chemist Henry Holmes Croft made Canadian legal history with a pickling jar’s gruesome contents.
Book Review: Calixa Lavallée was one of early Canada’s finest musical figures. Despite this, he remains an obscure figure within our national history. He is best remembered, when remembered at all, as the composer of “O Canada.” Author Brian Christopher Thompson aims to clarify who Lavallée was as well as the nature of his life’s work.
Book Review: Official commemoration without conflict is rare. Struggling over how best to know ourselves is not unique to the twenty-first century. Cecilia Morgan, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, recounts in Commemorating Canada how Canadians have always grappled with making meaning of their shared and divisive history.
Book Review: Dr. Oronhyatekha (Burning Sky) was baptized Peter Martin in 1841 in the Mohawk Territory of the Six Nations of the Grand River, near Brantford, Ontario.
Book Review: In response to academic and public criticisms of conflict studies, this book shows how war provides a window into the human condition and demonstrates how important it is that we continue to study the subject.
