Jonathan Franklin William Vance Books
Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against
By Jonathan Franklin William Vance
"When Nazi Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated in 1945, its records revealed that two young Canadians, Ken Macalister and Frank Pickersgill, were among its countless victim...
Read MoreA History of Canadian Culture
By Jonathan Franklin William Vance
From Dorset sculpture to traveling circuses to the Barenaked Ladies, award-winning historian Jonathan Vance reveals a storyteller's ear for narrative. In a country of unparalleled diversity, "cultu...
Read MoreObjects of concern
By Jonathan Franklin William Vance, Jonathan F. Vance
Hockey Magnate Conn Smythe, Trudeau cabinet minister Gilles Lamontagne, and the composer and former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Ernest MacMillan, share something other than the...
Read MoreDeath so noble
By Jonathan Franklin William Vance
Beginning with the armistice in 1918, Canadians constructed a version of the First World War that stressed traditional values, continuity, and the positive results of the war experience. In Death S...
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