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Christopher Moore - "Canada's Most  Versatile writer of history"

"an historian who always writes with grace and intelligence"
Michael Bliss, The Beaver  

For twenty years, Chris’s columns on historians, historical issues, and historical controversies have been a big part of the evolution of Canada's leading magazine of history. Called The Beaver, since 1920, it became Canada’s History in 2010. Chris’s columns have won honours at the National Magazine Awards, Western Magazine Awards, and Manitoba Magazine Awards. Click on one of the magazine covers or select from the listed titles to sample the columns. And check out Canada’s History’s ever-growing online presence for yourself.

Excerpted Beaver Columns


Robert Stacey: Detecting Canada's Art History
Trinity, Newfoundland: Can History Save a Town?
Rereading James Gray
Conrad Black's Franklin Roosevelt
Baboons, Scholars, and parliamentarians
What Happens to a Country without a Cinema?
Louis Robichaud: What a Premier Can Do
The West Muscles in, 1905
Confronting the Dragons
Electing the Senate -- the First Time
Another Prairie Giant: Who Was Jimmy Gardiner Anyway?
The Plaque Makers
Getting Your Genealogical Groove On
Michael Bliss: Histories and Principles
An Expo '67 Kaleioscope: Ten Scenes from Terre des Hommes
Writing The National Dream
That King-Byng Thing: What Can A Governor General Do?
Searching for Century Sam: British Columbia Celebrates a Hundred and Fifty Years
Listening to the North: Dorothy Harley Eber's Oral Histories
Rising Again: Local History Gets its' Due
Reading the History of Oil and Alberta

 

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