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More Canadian History

• Somewhere Diefenbaker and Gould are smiling...
  ...though I bet Diefenbaker is also giving Gould a dirty look. In an essay in this months issues of The Literary Review of Canada Adriana Craciun explores the search for the Franklin expedition as part of the federal governments strategy in claiming the North as Canadian and for Canada. […]
• New biography of John Turner from Carleton University Prof.
  I just heard news that a former prof. of mine at Carleton just published a political biography of John Turner. It's in an article in FASSinate (Carleton University Faculty of Arts and Social Science newsletter) "Reflecting on Turner:  By looking at the past, Litt’s  biography helps us understand the present political context." […]
• The Vimy Foundation Presents: Vimy Real
  Since last September I've had the pleasure of being involved with the Vimy Foundation in researching and consulting for a online interactive experience on the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Just recently we released the final project to the world! The experience, Vimy Real is a bi-lingual,"...interactive, multimedia game that you can play in class or at hom […]
• Prize Watch: To the Edge of the Sea wins!
   To the Edge of the Sea by Anne McDonald wins the Saskatchewan Book Award for First Book At the big gala on Saturday April 28 I'm thrilled to say that my novel, To the Edge of the Sea, set during the Confederation Conferences of 1864, with John A Macdonald and Mercy Coles, daughter of the PEI delegate and Father of Confederation George Coles, won th […]
• Hiatus not quite started -- prize watch
  Allan Levine's Mackenzie King biography wins at the Manitoba Book Awards:Allan Levine's King wins Manitoba Book AwardDouglas & McIntyre is delighted to announce that Allan Levine's King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny has won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. Established in 1988, the M […]

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