Gerry Bowler

If Canada is to survive, Canadians must be willing to fight politically, culturally, and economically to save it.

Commentary Toronto’s Yonge Street was once fabled as the longest street in the world. Though that boast is ...

Commentary As a historian of Christmas, I get to hear a lot of misinformation about the world’s favourite ...

Commentary The early years of the 20th century were years of astonishing breakthroughs. The first dirigible airship appeared ...

Commentary You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or ...

Sandford Fleming’s vision permanently altered how societies measure, understand, and organize time.

They weren’t at D-Day or Passchendaele, but they died in service just the same. And we rarely talk ...

Commentary On the stroke of 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, fighting ...

Commentary In the summer of 1483, the doors of the Tower of London closed behind two boys, children ...

Commentary Napoleon Bonaparte was a man of limitless ambition and unbounded ego. Europe had not seen a man ...

Commentary When the Roman Empire in the West fell in the fifth century, swamped by waves of Germanic ...

Commentary Around the year 800, attacks by Viking raiders erupted all over Europe. Scarcely anywhere on the continent ...

Commentary The course of human history is replete with evil deeds and natural disasters: massacres, famines, persecutions, unhinged ...

Commentary During the 16th century’s long series of struggles between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, one of the most ...

Commentary For centuries, Roman armies had manned two long defensive lines along the Rhine and Danube rivers, keeping ...

Commentary The Christian Church is proud of its saints. It assigns days of the year to their remembrance, ...

Commentary The fourth act of William Shakespeare’s play "The Tragedie of Macbeth" begins with the Scottish king, who ...

Commentary The following is the scathing description by 19th-century Scottish encyclopedist Robert Chambers of newspaper publisher Jean-Paul Marat, ...

Commentary “Now Know Ye, that I, Charles Stanley Viscount Monck, Governor General of Canada, do hereby proclaim and ...

Commentary On Nov. 11, 1918, the guns fell silent and World War I, the most horrific conflict humans ...

Commentary By the early 19th century, the coastline of the Pacific Northwest had been reached by expeditions from ...

Commentary A single line in a royal financial account leads us into the fascinating history of Scotch whisky. ...

Commentary Nowadays every little girl goes through a phase of wanting to be a princess. Parents are obliged ...

Commentary By the late 15th century, European marine technology had advanced to the point that long ocean-going voyages ...

Commentary By the late 19th-century the Spanish empire, which had once been the world’s richest and most extensive, ...

Commentary When King Louis XVI of France was deposed in September 1792 and a French Republic proclaimed, it ...

Commentary Pity the poor Emperor Claudius (10 BC–54 AD). Lame and deaf, bullied by his family, humiliated by ...