Canada’s History Editorial Calendar 2011/2012 December 2011/January 2012 • War Brides: Across Canada, War Brides associations are shutting their doors. “We’ve lived too long,” laments one war bride. A meditation on the passing of what has been called “The Greatest Generation.” By Philip Lee. • After the Fall: Sent to Hong Kong to help garrison the British colony, the Canadian troops thought they were in for an easy assignment. Then came the Japanese invasion – and the hell that came after. The experience of Canada’s Hong Kong POWs. By Nathan M. Greenfield. • Old Sites, New Stories: How Canada’s National Historic Sites have changed to accommodate shifting interpretations of history. By Claire Campbell. • Remembering the Recollets: Canada’s earliest missionaries did double duty as trade envoys for Samuel de Champlain. By Joe Stafford.
February/March 2012 Special issue on Canada’s history of foreign aid • Canadian Missionaries in China: Fired with desire to help the less fortunate in other countries, Canadians flocked to China in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century. by John Meehan. • First Aid: Some old-fashioned chivalry drove part of Canada’s assistance to Europe after First World War. By Desmond Morton. • Rebuilding Europe: Thousands of Canadians arrived in post-war Europe to help with a near impossible task — resettle millions of displaced persons. By Susan Armstrong-Reid and David Murray. • War and Peacekeeping: From the beginning, Canada’s peacekeeping efforts have been complex, messy and dangerous. By J.L. Granatstein. • Riding the Tiger: When Canada provided foreign aid to fight the Cold War threat in Asia, the outcome was dangerously unpredictable. by Keith Spicer • Good works under bad regimes: A four-decades-old Canadian aid agency has been quietly changing the world. by André Pelchat. • Miles for Millions: A look back at the grueling walkathons of the ‘60s and ‘70s, which were fundraisers to end world hunger. By Tamara Myers. • Rock Aid: When it comes to holding benefit concerts for famines and natural disasters, Canadian musicians are among the most proactive in the pop world. by Heath McCoy. • Rebuilding Afghanistan: What went right and what went wrong with Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. By Matthew Fisher. April/May 2012 • Game Changers: The top ten business stories in Canadian history, as chosen by the faculty of the U of T’s Rotman School of Business. By Joe Martin. • 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. • 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. • Titanic Disaster: 100th anniversary of the world’s most famous shipwreck. June/July 2012
• Who Won the War of 1812?: Two hundred years after war between Britain and the United States was declared, the question of who won remains unclear. • Dear Mr. President: A Canadian rector upbraids American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson as the War of 1812 draws to a close. By Chris Raible. • 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. • 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. August/September 2012 • 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. • 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. • Fly Wars: There was a time when the common housefly was Public Enemy No. 1. and children were on the frontlines of Canada’s Swat the Fly campaigns. By Isolde Prince. • 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 • Love Among the Ruins: A physiotherapist and a surgeon fall in love amid the chaos of World War One. By Suzanne Evans. • 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. • Battle of Queenston Heights: The first major battle of the War of 1812. December/January 2012/2013 • 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. • 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. • 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.
Anniversaries in 2011 400 Years Ago: June 24, 1611, Henry Hudson cast adrift in James Bay. May 22, 1611, first Jesuits arrive in New France. 300 Years Ago: 1711, abortive invasion of New France.
200 Years Ago Fall of 1811, Lord Selkirk settlers arrive in Red River. 175 Years Ago 1836 Canada’s first railway opens. 100 Years Ago 1921 $4 notes are taken out of circulation, first $1 coins are struck. Laurier is defeated by Borden over issue of Free Trade with U.S. 90 Years Ago 1921 McKenzie King wins federal election. 80 Years Ago 1931 British Parliament passes Statute of Westminster, giving Canada final independence. Governor General becomes representative of Crown in Canada. 75 Years Ago 1936 Duplessis becomes premier of Quebec. July 5-17 1936 Heat wave kills 780 people across Canada November 2, 1936 the nationally owned CRBC is replaced by the CBC, a Crown corporation 70 Years Ago December 1941 Fall of Hong Kong. 500 Canadians die in battle or of ill treatment. 65 Years Ago Canada’s largest earthquake – 7.3 – shakes Vancouver Island. 60 Years Ago 1951 Charlotte Whitton elected mayor of Ottawa, first woman mayor in Canada. 40 Years Ago March 5, 1971 Trudeau marries Margaret Sinclear 30 Years Ago June 28, 1981 Terry Fox dies. Sept. 23, 1981 Quebec bans signs in English. 25 Years Ago August 11, 1986 Tamil refugees found drifting off coast of Newfoundland. May 1986 Expo 86 opens in Vancouver. Air Canada becomes first North American carrier to ban smoking on flights. 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. 40 Years Ago September 28, 1972 — Henderson’s 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.