Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage/ To find the hand of Franklin /Reaching for the Beaufort Sea/Tracing one warm line /Through a land so wild and savage/ And make a Northwest Passage to the sea — Stan Rogers, Northwest Passage Many have sought to
The Kingston, Ontario writer Helen Humphreys has earned a well-deserved reputation for the fascinating subjects she chooses to write about and the words she employs to tell those stories. She has tackled apples in The Ghost Orchard, the Napanee River in The River, and, in
Oscar Rejlander didn’t invent photography, nor was he the first to use it, yet it’s remarkable to walk among his work, now at the National Gallery, and see so many of the roots of what we know as photography today. In his quest to have the
B.C. native Alix Hawley has written a second novel about the iconic American frontiersman Daniel Boone. The first was called All True Not a Lie in It. This one is called My Name Is A Knife and it returns to Boone's story after he is freed
A veteran journalist has won the Ottawa Book Award for English non-fiction for work that details his personal journey down the country's great rivers called Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada. Roy MacGregor joins two other local writers who picked up the top
The Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Erin Costelo has emerged as a musical force to be reckoned with both as a performer and as a producer. Before she celebrates the launch of a new album called Sweet Marie at the National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage on Saturday,
The Canadian War Museum is celebrating a $300,000 donation from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation. The funds will help support a new exhibition that features the art of Sir Alfred Munnings, who was an official war artist commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund. The exhibition will travel
Tim Cook is certainly one of the most prolific historians working in Canada today. He's published five books in the past five years. But none of them have been quite like his latest. The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War is not a
The two books known collectively as The Well-Tempered Clavier were published in 1722 (Book I) and 1742 (Book II). Together they are considered among the most important collections of music ever written. Of the two, the second book is considered the more challenging and frankly is
Monday night in Montreal will mark the culmination of a very long run of good fortune for Ottawa composer Kelly-Marie Murphy. The piece that won the $50,000 Azrieli Prize for new Jewish Music will be performed in concert at the city's Maison symphonique. En El
