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Catsbrains Donating Member (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 10:20 PM
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Any Canadians out there?
Can someone please recommend a good book as a starting point for learning Canadian history?
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 10:26 PM
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1. Try Googling this guy, he is/was a serious Canadian History buff....
Author Pierre Berton.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-13-08 08:15 AM
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3. Yes, but it's like reading Kenneth Roberts for history...
I'd recommend a biography of MacKenzie King because the issues that helped form modern Canada. It would cover Canada's relationship with England, it's reaction to the Great Depression, and its relationship to the US would all be covered.

Here he is with FDR and Churchill - look like characters from the Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland to me...



And here he is with Eleanor and Fala: King had to escort Eleanor to all the dinners at the Quebec conferences. They made a funny-looking pair!
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 10:41 PM
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2. You'll probably get better answers in the Canada forum...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=190
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