By Greg Scott In the damp, dark woods of the Old Northwest—those deep woods that once breathed Shawnee prayers and the sounds of snapping muskets—rose a man unlike any other. He was called Tecumseh, meaning “Shooting Star,” and like a celestial body, he flashed brightly, burned brilliantly, and was gone too soon. His mission? Nothing…

13 October 1812 Before daylight on 13 October 1812, boats began pushing away from the American shore of the Niagara River. They carried soldiers from an army that had come to accomplish what another American force had failed to do at Detroit only two months earlier: invade Upper Canada, establish a secure foothold, and demonstrate…

On July 1, 1867, a new nation was born, not through revolution, but through negotiation, diplomacy, and the pragmatic ambition of a handful of determined leaders. The British North America Act united the colonies of Canada (split into Ontario and Quebec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into the Dominion of Canada, setting the foundation for…

Dr. Barry M. Gough Honoured with the 2026 True North Book Prize as a special Lifetime Achievement Award The Canada History Society is proud to announce that the recipient of the 2026 True North Book Prize as a special Lifetime Achievement Award is Dr. Barry M. Gough, one of Canada’s most distinguished historians and internationally…

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By Greg Scott May 5, 2025 Canada’s Triumph in the Netherlands, 1945 The final spring of the Second World War broke cold and hungry across the Netherlands. Cities lay hollow, fields lay flooded, and the bellies of Dutch children grumbled with the bitterness of what became known as the “Hunger Winter.” Then came the Canadians…

Marc Milner, Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign. Yale University Press, 2025. 800 pages. Marc Milner’s Second Front is a magnificent, provocative and deeply important reassessment of the Allied victory in Normandy. Sweeping in its interpretation, formidable in its research and unapologetically Canadian in perspective, it challenges one of…

By Greg Scott History, as the old adage goes, is written by the victors. But now and then, the wind shifts, and a whisper from the past—half legend, half truth—becomes too loud to ignore. Such is the story of the Norse landings in North America, not in the Caribbean warmth that later drew Columbus, but…

Benedict Arnold’s Arduous Expedition to Quebec 1775: Visions and Realities By Barry Gough The battles of Lexington and Concord brought a military confrontation to a rapidly growing division between Americans and British. After the engagement at Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775  the dogs of war were let loose. General George Washington, the young commander-in-chief,…