Montréal hosted the Confederacy’s largest foreign secret service base during the Civil War. Montréal banks and other Canadian financial institutions held a million dollars or more in hard currency ...

Celebrated Montréal writer Jacob Isaac Segal (1896–1954) paved the way for a major literary movement in the North American Jewish diaspora. In tracing the poet’s literary trajectory, this book reflects ...

Arthur Pitts (1889–1972) born in the UK, came to Canada in 1914. He lived in Saanichton, British Columbia, attended the Westminster School of Art in London (1920) and the Vancouver School of Decorative ...

Set against a background of intense religious and cultural change and tensions over the meanings of nationalism and federalism in both Québec and Canada, Michael Gauvreau’s The Hand of God traces the ...

John Stewart combines an insider’s knowledge, a mole’s perspective, and a historian’s consciousness to explain how two countries that spent the 20th century building a world order together drifted ...

What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice ...

On Canada’s 150th birthday, we remember some of the most fascinating and important events and people in Canada’s history year by year:
• On July 1, 1867, the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia ...

Was Canada’s Dominion of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s ...

Joan Baxter’s personal quest to learn about the fascinating and much neglected story about many kinds of food in Africa, a continent with a rich farming tradition, intricate cuisines, and a multitude ...

When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will, King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly ...