Featured Book
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage (RMS TITANIC in Canada) takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic’s elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers. The intimate atmosphere on board history’s most famous ship is recreated with personal narratives of the lost liner’s most fascinating people interwoven with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Read more. |
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Fashion's Queen, Canada's History
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Prince of Hearts, Zoomer Magazine
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Proud Beginnings, Globe & Mail
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The Princess and the Prime Minister
Before Kate and before Diana, Princess Margaret was the royal star that captivated the public. And when she took a shine to Canada’s golden boy, it made headlines around the world. Read more. |
Meeting Jackie: A Canadian Encounters Camelot
Zoomer Magazine, Nov. 2013 Fifteen years after her death and nearly 50 years since she first, somewhat reluctantly, stepped into the spotlight’s glare, Jacqueline Kennedy’s star is undimmed. She’s invoked on The Simpsons, channelled on Mad Men and referenced in regard to any national leader’s wife who shows even a hint of glamour — whether it be Mila Mulroney (yes, once, briefly), Carla Bruni-Sarkozy or Michelle... Read more. |
Jacqueline Kennedy in Canada: A Star is Born
Zoomer Magazine, Nov. 2013 This week marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Here, Hugh Brewster looks back on a happier occasion when then first lady Jacqueline Kennedy caused a sensation in Ottawa in May of 1961. But the visit that launched the Jackie legend also sparked the worst-ever feud between a U.S. president and a Canadian prime minister. Read more. |
When Liz & Dick got Married
Zoomer Magazine, June 2013 They called it ‘the marriage of the century’ and we were enthralled It was the winter of 1964 and Toronto was strangely giddy about something other than hockey. The Maple Leafs seemed primed to win a third straight Stanley Cup victory that season but the city instead was in the thrall of Hollywood glamour. Movie star sightings in Toronto in the early ‘60s were about as common as palm trees on Yonge Street, and they could cause the populace to become a little overexcited. When Italian screen goddess Gina Lollobrigida had relocated to Toronto with her family in 1960, their rented house soon became so thronged by gawkers that La Lolla had quickly fled back to the Appian Way. Read more. |
Remembering the Draft Evaders
Zoomer Magazine, Jan. 2013 About 40 years ago, thousands of draft age Americans came to Canada rather than serve in the Vietnam War. Their stories illuminate a remarkable time in our history. Read more. |
A Titanic Scandal
Zoomer Magazine, April 2012 Lucy Duff Gordon was awakened by a strange, rumbling noise. It seemed to her as if a giant hand was rolling huge bowling balls deep beneath her. Then the ship’s engines stopped, and she heard footsteps in the corridor. “We must have hit an iceberg,” a voice called out. “There is ice on deck.” Read more. |
Outcasts
The Walrus Magazine, June 2014 “Men kissing--eeew, sick!” Eventually, a fifth former wearing a prefect’s tie came in and ejected the group. I waited until the room cleared before going to retrieve the offending magazine. At thirteen, I was already a somewhat precocious Maclean’s reader, but here was an article unlike anything I had seen before. “The Homosexual Next Door,” by Sidney Katz... Read more. |