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Canada’s Place in Baseball’s Hall of Fame
Yesterday Toronto Blue Jay’s second baseman Roberto Alomar and general manager Pat Gillick were inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame, making it a first for Canadians in baseball history. This marks...
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Teacher Librarians in the Information Age
In the 1950s when I was in high school (Oakwood Collegiate in Toronto) one of the more interesting punishments I received for my troublemaking was detention in the school library, where the school...
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The Dent On Our Precious Stanley Cup
James Marsh on CTV talking about the Stanley Cup. Of note is the picture of his granddaughter over his right shoulder—her first appearance on TV! The other day CTV National News invited me to say...
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The Canadian Encyclopedia Turns 26!
Publisher Mel Hurtig launches The Canadian Encyclopedia at the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton. It was a dramatic moment in the intellectual history of Canada. On the cool evening of September 6, 1985, a...
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Essential Reading: Lament for a Nation
George Grant’s Lament for a Nation is essential reading for any Canadian interested in the question that Grant posed in his introduction to the Carleton Library edition in 1970: “in what ways and for...
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National Geographic’s Exploring History
National Geographic's Exploring History It was heartening to see that the venerable organization National Geographic has released the first issue of a new magazine devoted to history, Exploring...
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Adam Gopnik’s “Winter”
Adam Gopnik"s Winter: Five Windows on the Season (House of Anansi Press, 2011). It was my good fortune on October 26 to attend the final lecture on Adam Gopnik’s tour to deliver this year’s Massey...
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The Genesis of the Vancouver In Time App
The encyclopedia genre has played a significant role in the digital world. Even before the World Wide Web, encyclopedias were among the most successful products of the CD-ROM interim. Microsoft’s...
View ArticleKingdom, Dominion or Just Plain Canada?
There were celebrations on July 1, 1867 for the new “Dominion of Canada,” but neither the date, name nor designation were sure things a few months before. The post Kingdom, Dominion or Just Plain...
View ArticleThe Origins of “O Canada”
"Throwing back his head he played for us, for the first time, the masterpiece of his genius - it was Calixa Lavallée; he played O Canada." The post The Origins of “O Canada” appeared first on TCE Blog.
View ArticleBlack History Month: Sonic Memories of Africville
Music historian Gary Cristall explores the history and music of a segregated, ignored, and later, demolished, community in Nova Scotia. The post Black History Month: Sonic Memories of Africville...
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National Myths and Dreams
The driving of the last spike – one of the most famous and iconic photos in Canadian history (photo by Ross Best & Co, courtesy Library and Archives Canada). A nation is a group of people who share...
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Heritage Minutes: A part of our heritage
Still from Wilder Penfield Heritage Minute. I have no distinct memory of the first time I saw a Heritage Minute. I watched a lot – like A LOT – of television as a child in the early nineties, probably...
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David Gilmour’s Extraordinary: A Review
David Gilmour, Extraordinary, HarperCollins Publishers (2013) In a by-now-infamous interview with Hazlitt magazine this fall, David Gilmour, 2005 Governor General’s Award winner for A Perfect Night to...
View ArticleNot For Saps: Documenting Tree Planting in Alberta
My first day of tree planting was the most humbling day of my life. I spent the months leading up to the planting season telling my friends about how much money I was sure to make, eagerly...
View ArticleThe History of Black History Month
Check out the Black History in Canada page for features, articles and biographies on a range of people, places and events related to Black communities in Canada. Black History Month provides an...
View ArticleL’histoire du mois de l’histoire des Noirs
Consultez la page l'histoire des Noirs au Canada pour des articles et des biographies sur un éventail de personnes, de lieux et d’événements liés à des communautés noires au Canada. L'Histoire du mois...
View ArticleBlack History in Canada: The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad, a secret network of escape routes on which African Americans fled enslavement in the American South, formed part of the largest freedom movement in North America before the...
View ArticleL’Histoire des Noirs au Canada: Le Chemin de fer clandestin
Le Chemin de fer clandestin est un réseau informel de routes et d’entraide qui permettait aux Afro-Américains de fuir les États esclavagistes du sud des États-Unis et d’atteindre les États libres (au...
View ArticleJ.B. MacKinnon’s The Once and Future World: A Review
J.B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World, Random House Canada (2013) We live in a 10 per cent world. Said again, we live in a world in which 90 per cent of the natural environment is gone. It’s a...
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