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Additional studies regarding political events in Montreal in the 1990s
/8 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdates A May 2017 CBC interactive webpage is entitled: “Montreal is 375 years old, but how old are its buildings?” A May 17, 2017 Montreal Gazette article is entitled: “Montreal’s history did not start 375 years ago.” [End] In previous posts I have discussed a 1993 film, The Rise and Fall of English Montreal. […]
The Canadian Oral History Reader (2015) “is an important work”
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillYou can access a review of the book here. The Canadian Oral History Reader ed. by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly (review) Heather Read From: The Canadian Historical Review Volume 97, Issue 1, March 2016 pp. 145-147 The opening paragraphs of the review read: [I have broken the longer text into shorter […]
The Woman With the X-Ray Eyes: Blog post by Elinor Florence regarding Constance Babington Smith – Second World War aerial photography specialist
/0 Comments/in Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA November 29, 2014 blog post by Elinor Florence is entitled The Woman With the X-Ray Eyes. I came across the post because I was looking for an online image of Constance Babington Smith whose work is featured in Chapter 6 of Women of Intelligence: Winning the Second World War with Air Photos (2012), a […]
When Britain burned the White House
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI have an interest in military history including the history of the British empire. My interest in the latter empire stems from the fact that Colonel Samuel Smith, who fought on the British side in the American Revolutionary War, in 1797 built a log cabin a one-minute walk from where I live in Long Branch (Toronto […]