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Canada's History
Chris has written this National Magazine Award-nominated column on history and historians for many years. Here's a sampling.
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- 2000 and earlier
- Writing the National Dream (1993)
- Robert Stacey: Detecting Canada's Art History (2000)
- 2005 - 2006
- What Happens to a country without a Cinema? (2005)
- Louis Robichaud: What a Premier Can Do (2005)
- The West Muscles In, 1905 (2005)
- Confronting the Dragons (2006)
- Electing the Senate - The first Time (2006)
- Trinity: Can History Save a Town? (2006)
- Another Prairie Giant: Who was Jimmy Gardiner Anyway? (2006)
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2007 - 2008
- An Expo '67 Kaleidoscope: Ten Scenes from Terre des Hommes (2007)
- The Plaque Makers (2007)
- Rereading James Gray (2007)
- Getting Your Genealogical Groove On (2008)
- Michael Bliss: Histories and Principles (2008)
- Searching for Century Sam: British Columbia Celebrates a Hundred and Fifty Years (2008)
- Listening to the North: Dorothy Harley Eber's Oral Histories (2008)
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2009 - 2010
- Rising Again: Local History Gets Its' Due (2009)
- That King-Byng Thing: What can a Governor General Do? (2009)
- Reading the History of Oil and Alberta (2009)
- Tim Brook: A Canadian Take on the History of the World (2009)
- Why Can't We Visit National Museums for Free? (2009)
- Genius on the Plains (2009)
- Do Our Historic Sites Brainwash Us? (2010)
- Inventing Canada on the World Wide Web (2010)
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2011 - 2012
- History Wars at the Royal Ontario Museum (2011)
- Why Canadians don't want to think about coalition governments (2011)
- National Parks for the Next Hundred Years (2011)
- Whodunit: The Killing of D'Arcy McGee (2011/2012)
- A New National Narrative (2012)
- Our Majesty: Sixty Years of Royal Tours (2012)
- The History in the Home Movie (2012)
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2013-2014
- The Life and Times of Peter Waite (2013)
- Abolishing the Senate: Why the Fathers might approve (2013)
- The Royal Proclamation of 1763: 250 Years of Treaty-making (2013)
- Cleaning House: So, you think scrapping the Senate is impossible? (2014)
- Norm Kelly: A historian in the mayor’s chair (2014)
- Donald Creighton's Desk (2014)
- Chanak and ISIS (2014)