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From Wall Street to Bay Street

By (author) Joe Martin & Chris Kobrak
Categories: History of the Americas

 

The 2008 financial crisis rippled across the globe and triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer funded bailouts, ...

Canadians and Their Pasts

What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today’s world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to ...

Bomb Canada

By (author) Chantal Allan
Categories: History of the Americas

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Canada and the United States. Two nations, one border, same continent.
Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented, but what have
Americans had to say about their northern neighbour? Allan ...

Warming Up to the Cold War

By (author) Robert Teigrob
Categories: History of the Americas

When U. S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada’s government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent’s government was forced ...

With Scarcely a Ripple

Using a prosopographical approach that combines descriptive exposition, quantitative tabulation, and structural analysis, Randy Widdis determines the geographical and social origins of migrants, the distance ...