David P. Silcox

Big and ambitious projects at Canada’s universities are among the less celebrated achievements of our country. What successes our scholars and researchers have given to us and to the world rarely get mentioned in the popular press, let alone held up as points of enduring national pride. Such mammoth undertakings as our own Dictionary of Canadian Biography…

In the wake of the First World War, Canada began to shake off its colonial status and to define itself as an independent state with its own indigenous art forms. One of the enduring initiatives in this movement was the creation of the Group of Seven, officially formed in Toronto in 1920, and its legacy of defining Canada by painting the Canadian…