Canada’s History Magazine: The Beaver

This November, the newly expanded Canada’s History Awards will be handed out in Ottawa. Among the awards handed out will be the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, given by the Canadian Historical Association to the best scholarly history publication.

This year’s winner is Prof. Ian McKay of Queen’s University. McKay’s book, Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920. A Q & A with Prof. McKay is featured in the October/November 2009 issue of The Beaver.

Beaver Editor Mark Reid spoke with Prof. McKay’s in late summer about his research into history of leftists in Canada.

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In May 2009, a Victoria Cross, along with eight other war medals belonging to Canadian First World War veteran Robert Shankland, was auctioned in Toronto.

Controversy surrounded the sale, and the story of that auction, and the troubling questions it raises, is the focus of the article Valour Sold, available in the October/November 2009 issue of The Beaver magazine.

The medals were ultimately purchased by the Canadian War Museum.

Shortly after the auction, Beaver Editor Mark Reid spoke with Mark O¹Neill, the director general of the War Museum, about its newest acquisitions.

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