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It’s been a busy spring season so far – if only it felt like spring outside! Here’s the weekly round-up of news and events at MQUP.
Who owns a country?
Cecil Foster’s guest blog post
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Wednesday, April 2nd
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Toronto Reference Library (map)
The editors and some contributors to Before Ontario: The Archaeology of a Province are participating in a fascinating panel discussion next week at the Toronto Reference Library.
Heritage Toronto presents an exploration of the latest archaeological insights into the lives of Indigenous peoples in Southern … Read More >
We are very excited to announce that two of our authors have been shortlisted for Canadian Historical Association prizes! CONGRATULATIONS to Todd Webb, author of Transatlantic Methodists, and Ian K. Steele, author of Setting All the Captives Free.
2014 SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD PRIZE FINALIST:
Todd Webb, Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the … Read More >
Today’s guest blogger is Cecil Foster, author of Genuine Multiculturalism: The Tragedy and Comedy of Diversity.
Who owns a country? This is one of the burning questions that confront us daily as modern individuals and even as nations and states. It is a question that is never far below the surface in any discussion, among others, about … Read More >
This is the weekly round-up of news and events at MQUP.
Water on the Brain
Guest post by Thinking with Water editors
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TOMORROW: Thinking with Water Book Launch
Librairie Formats, Montreal
7-9 PM
To mark World Water Day (Saturday, March 22), please join us tomorrow for the Montreal launch of Thinking with Water, edited by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod and Astrida Neimanis.
Engage your sense of water on a semi-guided tour of river rapids, urban water infrastructures, and post-industrial transformation at … Read More >
Canada Water Week is a nation-wide celebration of water, held each year in the third week of March to coincide with World Water Day on March 22, 2014. Organizations across the country are encouraged to participate by organizing and taking part in educational events.
We’re excited to share two MQUP books being showcased this … Read More >
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! What better time to showcase our books on Irish history and important Irish figures in Canada?
Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 1, by David A. Wilson
Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857
A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D’Arcy McGee is best known for his prominent role in Irish-Canadian politics, his inspirational speeches … Read More >
The Secrets of a Vatican Cardinal, edited by Bruno Fabio Pighin and translated by Laurence Mussio, offers an extraordinary and detailed first-hand account of the Eternal City in wartime Italy from within the Vatican’s inner circle. The following excerpt is Celso Costantini’s diary entry from February 1940, four months before Mussolini declared war on Britain and France.
TONIGHT at 7pm
Trinity Western University
Graduate Collegium, Fosmark Centre (map)
Author Janet Epp Buckingham is having a book launch tonight for Fighting over God: A Legal and Political History of Religious Freedom in Canada at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC.
From before Confederation to the present day, religion has been one of … Read More >