The award is presented annually to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the historical thinking concept of cause and consequence through an examination of Prohibition in the early twentieth century.
Mona Parsons was member of the Dutch resistance, and one of only a few Canadian civilians to be interned in Nazi prison camps. Andria Hill recounts Mona Parson’s remarkable story.
A century ago Canada West magazine beat the drums for immigrants to fill the vast unbroken prairie. But those drums beat louder in some places than others.