Canada’s History Editorial Calendar 2012/2013 (as of March 9, 2012 — subject to change) June/July 2012 • Arctic Mounties: Establishing Canadian ownership of the Arctic in the 1930s was no easy task. Just ask the Mounties, whose job was to live year-round in places where not even the Inuit tarried in winter. By Peter Gorrie. • Remembering Fairbridge Farm: Taken from their homes in England and brought to remote B.C., the destitute children who lived and worked at Fairbridge Farm remember their experiences – some fondly, others, with bitterness. By Steve Turnbull. • What did Tecumseh Look Like? No one really knows. The images we have of the great War of 1812 aboriginal warrior are largely made up. By Sarah Scott. • Calgary Stampede: A look at the colourful 100-year history of Calgary Stampede. By Jill Foran. • Queen’s Jubilee: Remembering the Queen’s earliest visits to Canada. By Christopher Moore. August/September 2012 • Goal of a the Century — the 72 Summit Series turns 40. A Globe and Mail sportwriter examines the legacy of the greatest hockey series ever. By Bruce Dowbiggan. • Call of the Wild(life). Historically, the wildlife in Canada’s parks were considered nuisances or worse. Many predators were wiped out, devastating the ecosystem. A look at how Canada’s parks are trying to change the unfortunate history of wildlife management in our parks system. By Alan MacEachern. • Canadian Cowboy Soldier: A tribute to a forgotten wartime hero — General Sir Charles Falkland Loewen. By Ted Barris. 2,000 words. • Bridal Gowns: A photo essay detailing how bridal gowns have changes over the years. By Beverley Tallon. • Re-enacting the War of 1812: Historical re-enactors go to great lengths to recreate the key battles of the war. By Nelle Oosterom. October/November 2012 • The Great Trek North: A feature about the Great Trek north During the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 45,000 Saskatchewan people were forced to leave their farms to go north to work in the forests. By Merle Massie. • War and Peacekeeping: From the beginning, Canada’s peacekeeping efforts have been complex, messy and dangerous. By J.L. Granatstein. The Battle of Queenston Heights — Remembering the first major battle of the war. TBA • Chilkoot Trail: A writer reflects on her 21st century conquest of the famous Yukon gold rush trail. By Maggie Van Emmerik. 2,000 words. December/January 2012/2013
• History Comic Evolution: How history comics have moved beyond the fringes to become a mainstream teaching tool in Canada. By Kenton Smith. • Thunder on the Prairie: The North-West Rebellion of 1885 remains a nightmare for historians. Not only is it difficult to interpret, the facts of the events remain as much in dispute today as they did when the conflict was taking place. By Keith Foster. • A Family Herald Christmas: How the popular national magazine homogenized the Yuletide season from coast to coast. By David Goss. 1,500 words. • Who Won the War of 1812 — Canada’s leading 1812 historian analyzes the war and what it meant to the future of Canada and its relation to the United States. By Donald E. Graves. • The Doukhobors: The wacky world of politics in British Columbia took an especially strange turn on September 2, 1962, when almost one thousand Sons of Freedom Doukhobors marched out of their home village of Krestova, cloistered in the mountainous Kootenay region of southeastern B.C. By Larry Hanannt. Upcoming: • Building Our Parks. Few Canadians realize this, but their national parks were largely built with labour provided by prisoners of war, interned citizens, or out of work men sent to the parks as make work projects. The story behind the building of our national parks. By Bill Waiser. • Canada Invades El Salvador: Sending in the Canadian navy to crush a ‘Bolshevik’ uprising in 1932 may have cost more lives than it saved. By Mark Reynolds. • Love Among the Ruins: A physiotherapist and a surgeon fall in love amid the chaos of World War One. By Suzanne Evans. • Nasty Work in New Brunswick: Acadian Premier Louis Robichaud’s social reforms threatened the privileges of the wealthy, prompting the province’s richest man — and his loyal sidekick — to fight back. By Jacques Poitras. • Arming the Enemy: In World War I, a German sub shocked the world by leaving the neutral U.S. laden with Inco nickel from Canada. The metal was intended for German bombs. By Daryl White. • Whack Ryan: He was a larger-than-life nineteenth century Canadian soldier of fortune. Unknown in Canada today, Cuba reveres Whack Ryan as a martyr. By Peter Blow. • Canadian Martyrs in China: Fired with desire to help the less fortunate in other countries, Canadians missionaries flocked to China in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century. Some were destined to become martyrs for their cause. by John Meehan. • War of 1812 Traitor: A look at Canada’s Benedict Arnold of the War of 1812. By Andrew Hind.
• Bird’s-Eye Artists: Long before the age of flight, bird’s-eye artists offered viewers an aerial perspective of the cities they lived in. By Jeffrey Murray. • Fallout Shelter Fizzle: Build a fallout shelter in your backyard to protect your family from a nuclear war, urged the Canadian government in the 1950s and ’60s. Yet few people did. By Andrew Burtch. • Military Buglers Grow Silent: Canada’s armed forces don’t toot their owns so much anymore, as the bugling has become a dying tradition. By Leslie Bourgon. • Confederate Montreal: The largely forgotten history of Montreal’s connection to the American Civil War. By Pierre Home-Douglas. • Prisoner of Paris: Claire Fauteaux left Canada for France to pursue a life as a painter. She never thought her most memorable portraits would be ones she would create while a prisoner of the Nazis. By Ray Argyle. • The Unsinkable Prairie Ship: In the depths of the Depression, a farmer builds an ocean-going ship in a Saskatchewan grain field as his neighbours look on with disbelief. By Rick Book. • Special Forces: The Canadian special forcers unit that saw action in Afghanistan has its roots in a group of Canadian commandos who aggressively fought their way through Italy and France during the Second World War. By Dave Pugliese. • Freeing the Island: The tale of Vancouver Island’s short-lived effort to separate from Canada in the 1930s. By Forrest Pass. • York Betrayed: The American invasion of York is aided by a Canadian traitor. By Andrew Hind. Anniversary is April 2013. IWomen and the War of 1812 — Laura Secord is the best known woman in the War of 1812, but many other women played important roles in the conflict. By Dianne Graves. 2013 Other stories to be commissioned War on water — How losing the battle for the Great Lakes cost Britain victory in the War of 1812. TBA 2014 Canada’s bloodiest battle — Lundy’s Lane in July 1814 was the deadliest battle ever fought on Canadian soil. TBA 2014 How Lower Canada saved Upper Canada in the War of 1812 — Explorations piece by Desmond Morton. Argues it was Quebec and First Nations that kept Canada in the war after the death of Brock. The Price of Peace — What did each side sacrifice to achieve an end to the War of 1812? TBA 2014 Anniversaries in 2012 200 Years Ago June 18, 1812 — American declares war on Britain, which starts the War of 1812. October 13, 1812 — First major conflict of the War of 1812, the Battle of Queenston Heights. 175 Years Ago
November 16, 1827 — Insurrection in Lower Canada. December 5, 1827 — Rebellion in Upper Canada. 100 Years Ago April 15, 1912 — Sinking of the Titanic. 80 Years Ago May 26, 1932 — CRBC (forerunner to the CBC) is established. August 1, 1932 — CCF is founded under Tommy Douglas. 70 Years Ago August 19, 1942 — Raid on Dieppe. 65 Years Ago February 13, 1947 — Oil strike at Leduc, Alberta. July 22, 1947 — Canada’s first nuclear reactors. 60 Years Ago January 24, 1952 — Vincent Massey is appointed as the first Canadian-born Governor General. February 6, 1953 — Elizabeth II becomes Queen. 2012 marks Diamond Jubilee of her reign. 40 Years Ago September 28, 1972 — Canada wins the hockey Summit Series with Paul Henderson’s famous goal in Moscow. 30 Years Ago March 8, 1982 — Canada Act is passed, patriating Canada’s Constitution. April 17, 1982 — Charter of Rights and Freedoms comes into effect. 25 Years Ago June 30, 1987 — Canada introduces the one-dollar coin. July 31, 1987 — Edmonton tornado kills twenty-seven people.