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Book Review: Jean Teillet’s story of the Métis is framed around five resistances, which are set against the backdrop of events leading up to the creation of the Canadian state.

Fiction Feature: Three kids pester their aunt about a question they can’t agree on. Should the bear or the groundhog be the official animal they look to for answers on Feb. 2? In 1908, it still wasn’t clear which Canada would end up choosing.

Book Review: At the Ocean’s Edge brings fresh eyes to the story of the province of Nova Scotia.

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Book Review:  The book Montréal Capital City leads to an ironic realization: If anglophone Montrealers hadn’t destroyed a great building that had been largely their own creation, Montreal might still be the nation’s capital today — and our political evolution would look very different indeed.

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Book review: Allyson D. Stevenson is the chair of Métis studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and the book Intimate Integration is based on her 2015 doctoral dissertation. While this is a scholarly work, it is nevertheless very readable and contains a rich trove of history documenting Indigenous and Métis child welfare in Saskatchewan during the last half of the twentieth century.

Book Review: Of the 2,800 Canadian nurses who served during the First World War, very few kept a record of their wartime experience. Thus, Ruth Loggie’s war diary is a treasure.

Book Review: Asleep in the Deep draws on the letters or diaries of other nurses — such as Loggie’s best friend, Clare Gass — to flesh out details of what Stamers’ three years of service might have been like.

Fiction Feature: A young boy named Justin finds a letter and learns about the Christmas truce of 1914.