Canada’s History Editorial Calendar 2010-2011 June/July 2010 • Shellshock: At first they were ridiculed, called cowards and worse. But as thousands of Canadian soldiers broke down in the trenches, medical officials finally accepted fact — the men were shellshocked. A six-part investigation of this controversial medical condition, with stories from WWI, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and modern day. By Tim Cook, Dennis Duffy, Ted Barris, and Mark Reid. • A Vote for Women: Ninety years ago, Canada’s Parliament granted women the right to sit in Parliament. A look at what the first female MPs were up against as they entered an all-male bastion. By Deb Grey. August/September 2010 • C.I.A. Connection: A Canadian professor’s groundbreaking experiments in sensory deprivation led to new and disturbing methods of interrogation. By Cecil Rosner. • Canada’s She Pirate: A look at the folklore surrounding Maria Lindsey Cobham — the ruthless female pirate said to have terrorized Canada’s East Coast in the 1700s. By Paul Dalby. • E-mails of Yesterday: First mailed in Canada in 1871, the postcard became an overnight sensation, going on to document the social history of Canada for more than a hundred years. By Barbara Fear. October/November 2010 • Canada's Naval Centennial: — As Canada’s navy turns 100, a look back on one of its finest hours — anti-submarine operations in the summer of 1944. By Mark Milner. — In 1968, the Canadian military was merged to become the Canadian Forces — against the objections of many servicemen and women in the navy. By Jack Granatstein. • Take Me to Havana: It’s been forty years since the October Crisis. What happened to the FLQ members who were banished to Cuba? By Maria Amuchastegui. • Canada’s Oldest Park: Celebrating the 125th anniversary of Banff National Park. December 2010/January 2011 • Wrongful Executions: Justice, like Cook Teets, was blind when he was hanged for poisoning his wife — a crime of which he was later exonerated. How many other innocents did Canada hang? By Ray Argyle. With sidebar on Albert County Gaol. • Canada, Your Friendly Neighbour: With the Great Depression causing a tourism slump, officials dreamed up new ways to make Canada look attractive to visitors. By Philip Goldring. • 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. • A Tale of Two Rivals: The fates of track athletes Hilda Strike and Stella Walsh would be forever entwined in a story that ends with a shocking twist. By Ron Hotchkiss. February/March 2011 • The Imposter Prof: How hard is it to impersonate a psychologist? Ronald Macdonald was so good at it, he became the head of Lakehead University’s psychology department in the 1960s. By Susan Goldenberg. • Parliament in Flames: The events that led up to the burning of Canada’s Parliament in 1849. By Joseph Graham. • Lord Durham, Savior of Quebec: Reviled by some, Lord Durham played a major role in protecting French language, laws and customs. By Richard W. Pound. • The Flying Housewife: Back in the 1950s, when men were men and women stayed home, female pilots like Dorothy Rungeling threw convention to the wind. By Kelly Putter.
Anniversaries in 2010:
400 years ago: • On July 5, 1610, the founding of the first English settlement in what would become Canada in Cupids, Newfoundland. • Henry Hudson explores Hudson Bay. 250 years ago: • Various events related to the fall of Quebec. 100 years ago: • The founding of Canada’s Girl Guides (January). • Creation of Canadian Navy (May). 50 years ago: • July 1, 1960, status Indians are given the right to vote. • Evidence of Viking settlement in Newfoundland uncovered. 40 years ago: • The October Crisis in Quebec. Coming up: • Canada’s First Car: Father Georges-Antoine Belcourt brings a curious vehicular contraption to P.E.I. in 1866. By James Mays and Ryan Rogers. • Fighting Parson: Reverend Leslie Spracken was a pistol-packing Methodist preacher who stopped at nothing to enforce prohibition. By Mark Bourrie. • Nihilist Band: It was 1969 and the workday routine of central Paris was shattered by a sudden cacophony of loud, jarring and atonal noise. Who was making this ruckus? No less than Canada’s official musical entry in the sixth Paris Biennale des Jeunes. By Katie Cholette. • Amundsen’s Family Secret: There was a time when no one in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, would admit to being descended from Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Things are different now. By George Tombs. • 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 destined to be turned into German bombs. By Daryl White. • Winter of the Rals: Starving, homeless men terrorize St. John’s under the watch of Newfoundland’s unluckiest governor. By Paul Butler. • World Series in a Sandbox: What was billed as the greatest horse race of all time was held in a gloomy little backwater in southwestern Ontario. How could this happen? By Bob Carson. • Fighting the Power: Louis Robichaud, New Brunswick’s first Acadian premier, goes toe-to-toe with the powerful Irving family. By Jacques Poitras. • Dear Mr. President: A Canadian rector upbraids American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson as the War of 1812 draws to a close. By Chris Raible. • 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. • 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. • 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. • Pioneer Priest: Father Joseph Le Caron endured great danger and hardship as a Recollet missionary. Not only did he save souls, he saved New France’s interest in the fur trade. By Joe Stafford. • Front Runner: Cree athlete Alex Decoteau put his running talents to good use: As a policeman, he caught speeding cars on foot; as an athlete he competed in the 1912 Olympics; and as a soldier he served as a trench runner in World War I. By Charlotte Cameron. • Spanish Flu: Canada was hard hit by the Spanish Flu of 1918. And no city was harder hit than Halifax. By Paul Erickson.