That's enough politics for a while -- this is a history blog.
New: Irene Howard's Gold Dust on My Shirt, a memoir that is also a powerful history of hard-as-the-land Swedish immigrants in northern British Columbia.
And timely: Ted Barris's Juno book is not new, but I heard him on the radio from the beaches this morning.
And The Historicist -- Kevin Plummer at the all-things-Toronto blog Torontoist -- has a nice piece on the 2oth century photographers the Turofsky brothers, with some great images.
Update: And, surely an historic first, Stephen Michael MacLean is Twitter -ing the 118th anniversary of the death of John A. Macdonald .
