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The Book: A Backstory
by Christopher Dummitt
Why would anyone ever write a book? I first started thinking about the book that would become Unbuttoned in 2003. And yet it is only this spring, fourteen years later, that the book was published. I’m inclined to agree that delayed gratification increases pleasure, but that is one heck of … Read More >
Editors Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas’s book Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic (Spring 2017) has received a wonderful review by Laura Brehaut in the National Post (June 9, 2017).
Management of fire and wool, candle- and soap-making – Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide is a blueprint for survival in the … Read More >
Author Christopher Dummitt’s new book Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King’s Secret Life has been receiving substantial attention in the press. Below is a list of some of Dummitt’s recent media appearances, along with reviews and news pieces related to the book.
Piece by Jim Bronskill in The Globe … Read More >
Swingback: Getting Along in the World with Harper and Trudeau, the new book from journalist and author Mike Blanchfield, continues to receive considerable attention in the press. Read more reviews of the book here:
Review from Bob Rae for The Globe and Mail
To … Read More >
(PCUH) – The 24th Annual Saskatchewan Book Awards were held April 29, 2017 at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. The awards celebrate excellence in writing and publishing. Prof. Bohdan Kordan’s No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience was shortlisted and then selected as the recipient of the Jennifer … Read More >
Congratulations to Howard Shubert! His new book Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena has won the Melva J. Dwyer Award. The Dwyer Award is given to the creators of exceptional reference or research tools relating to Canadian art and architecture. The jury selected Architecture on Ice from a field of 12 nominees as … Read More >
Just in time for Christmas, an excerpt from Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums by Andrea Terry. In Family Ties, Andrea Terry considers the appeal and relevance of domesticated representations of Victorian material culture in a contemporary multicultural context. Family Ties connects residential artifacts to performance by examining the Victorian Christmas … Read More >
Thank you to everyone who participated in our #ArchitectureonIce contest!
The contest is now closed. We are very pleased to announce the three winners will each receive a copy of Howard Shubert’s Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena. Below is the list of winners and their arena memory/experience Tweet!
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MQUP is hosting a social media contest for a chance to win a copy of Howard Shubert’s new book, Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena! The book provides an in-depth review of the development of skating rinks from their humble beginnings to the multipurpose arenas we know today, and is … Read More >
For Remembrance Day we have selected a few of our recent military history titles to create a reading list. The list is varied and includes a novel about German occupied Northern France during World War I, a study on combat motivation for Canadian soldiers during WWII, the stories and memories of those in Newfoundland during WWII and more!