bout de papier, Volume 7, Issue No. 4, 1990
Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars
In this carefully researched and clearly written volume, award-winning military historian Dr. Tim Cook of the Canadian War Museum steps well back from the front lines with a comparative study of how Canada’s unwarlike prime ministers dealt with the national strains and…
(Also in) Paris 1919
Margaret MacMillan, the Provost of Trinity College and Professor of History at the University of Toronto, has earned international acclaim for her elegant, witty and remarkably comprehensive account of the Paris Peace Conference, which was published first in the United Kingdom as…
The Pity of War
For a nation of peace-keepers, peace-mongers and peace-builders, with Pearson’s Nobel Peace Prize in the national display cabinet, it is an irony of history that all of Canada’s wars have been “good wars.” From repelling General Montgomery from the heights of Quebec…
When We Were Heroes: Canada in 1918
by W. (Bill) A. Dymond
Spearhead To Victory: Canada And the Great War
Modern Canadians are uncomfortable with the thought that a warrior spirit lurks in their history and heritage. The Canadian shock trooper, armed to the teeth, bayonet fixed, equipped with a sometime “no-prisoners approach” to the grim business of war, striking fear and…
Free Trade, 1911 and All of That
Draw near to the fire this stormy windswept night, and bout de papier will tell you a Canadian ghost story.
