When a young reporter named Daniel H. Craig started sending scoops to the Baltimore Sun in the 1830s using carrier pigeons, he was on the cutting edge of a news service that would eventually be known as the Associated Press. In Race to the Cape, readers learn how Craig nurtured the fledgling organization — and how a small outport on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula helped him along the…
Ron Verzuh
Ron Verzuh is a writer and historian who briefly worked for the Canadian Press.
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The Yellowknives Dene First Nation has watched as its ancestral land and waters have been penetrated to extract gold since the Con Mine began operating in 1938, followed by the Giant Mine, which opened in 1949. With The Price of Gold, the historians John Sandlos and Arn Keeling, from Memorial University, offer thoroughly documented evidence of the damage…
Long before Jed Clampett discovered “a bubblin’ crude” on The Beverly Hillbillies, the world was captivated by oil. Or, as the journalist, novelist, and historian Don Gillmor recounts in On Oil, captivated by a dream of riches that is leading us down a disastrous path. Since the first rig was built in…