Nearly a year after the sudden disappearance of longtime editor Mark Reid -- and never a word to readers or members about what transpired there -- Canada's History's October-November issue introduces new Editor Jacqueline Kovacs (hired last June, also without comment at the time), and still no comment or explanation. Magazines shouldn't be in the secret-keeping business, should they?
Still, a lively mix of stories in the issue, for sure. Canada's first chess grandmaster Abe Yanovsky of Winnipeg. The sinking of a Canadian troopship off Singapore. The profound and lasting significance of the Treaty of Niagara 1764. Surveying the Canada-US border, with copious maps. And a cover story on the prairie tipi. A note on a new play in Halifax about Rocky Jones, Afro-Canadian activist and historian. Letters about lighthouses. Nothing from me in this issue, but looking for great things from Jackie Kovacs and her team. Stay tuned. And subscribe, like ya oughta.
