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Canada: An Illustrated History by Derek Hayes (D&M $36.95)
No matter how you vote, you have to admit the notion that Canada is a construct worth preserving has been reinvigorated with the election of Trudeau the Younger. Just that decision to stop slowly starving the CBC to death is enough to make millions believe we are no longer inexorably destined to emulate the catastrophic capitalist spiral of our neighbour to the south.
It's therefore good timing for Derek Hayes' revised and expanded, Canada: An Illustrated History to coincide with the country's 150th anniversary in 2017.
Without a great deal of chest-thumping, the multi-award winning geographer Hayes has fashioned a marvelous tour of our national story, from explorer Jacques Cartier to astronaut Chris Hadfield.
B.C. doesn't get short shrift. We get Wreck Beach hippies, Terry Fox, Justin at Vancouver's Pride Parade and two pages devoted to the iconic photo taken by Claude Detloff in New Westminster on October 1, 1940.
When members of the B.C. Regiment of the Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles were marching to the railway station and overseas for WW II, a boy named Warren Bernard ran after his father Jack Bernard and reached out his little hand.
It was a great image to stoke the flames of patriotism. But Hayes reveals the facts. Jack Bernard was marching off to war against the wishes of his young wife. Their marriage disintegrated. He survived the war and died in 1981.
The photo known as "Wait for Me, Daddy"; inspired a memorial statue at the foot of Eighth Street that was unveiled in 2014 with Warren 'Whitey' Bernard-the 79-years-young boy who appeared in the photo-in attendance.
978-1-77162-120-5
It's therefore good timing for Derek Hayes' revised and expanded, Canada: An Illustrated History to coincide with the country's 150th anniversary in 2017.
Without a great deal of chest-thumping, the multi-award winning geographer Hayes has fashioned a marvelous tour of our national story, from explorer Jacques Cartier to astronaut Chris Hadfield.
B.C. doesn't get short shrift. We get Wreck Beach hippies, Terry Fox, Justin at Vancouver's Pride Parade and two pages devoted to the iconic photo taken by Claude Detloff in New Westminster on October 1, 1940.
When members of the B.C. Regiment of the Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles were marching to the railway station and overseas for WW II, a boy named Warren Bernard ran after his father Jack Bernard and reached out his little hand.
It was a great image to stoke the flames of patriotism. But Hayes reveals the facts. Jack Bernard was marching off to war against the wishes of his young wife. Their marriage disintegrated. He survived the war and died in 1981.
The photo known as "Wait for Me, Daddy"; inspired a memorial statue at the foot of Eighth Street that was unveiled in 2014 with Warren 'Whitey' Bernard-the 79-years-young boy who appeared in the photo-in attendance.
978-1-77162-120-5
Submitted on November 9, 2016 in By David.
