This year, Canada has celebrated 150 years of Confederation. One question Canadians continue to ask about this anniversary is: What sparked Canada’s rapid expansion from coast to coast? Among the catalysts for Confederation were steamboats, or “fire canoes,” as aboriginal people called them. In large measure, the national dream of a Canada from sea to sea […]
Walter Allward's marble sculpture of Mother Canada mourning her dead at Vimy Ridge memorial site in France. On September 10, historian Ted Barris brings the Vimy story to a gathering of the Ontario Model Soldier Society. Drawing content and visuals from his bestselling book Victory At Vimy, Ted will walk his audience through events of that famous […]
Ted Barris is coming to the Gravenhurst Probus Club on September 19. He will speak about and show illustrations from his award-winning and bestselling book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story. On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 360-foot-long tunnel, code-named “Harry.” Most slipped into the darkness of a pine […]
As it has for three decades now, Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge will host its annual Books and Authors night at the town's Music Hall, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. This year, proprietor Shelley Macbeth and the best little bookstore in the world, in cooperation with the Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts, […]
On September 27, Ted Barris presents an alternative view of one of the greatest moments of WWII, to the Probus Club of Whitby/Brooklin. He will speak about and show illustrations from his award-winning and bestselling book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story. On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a […]