# Looking for a history of Canada that makes for a compelling read **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 5, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-history-of-canada-that-makes-for-a-compelling-read/675531 "2013-12-05T01:09:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-history-of-canada-that-makes-for-a-compelling-read/675531/21 "2013-12-06T08:22:03Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > We’re still biding our time over the Alaska panhandle … Shhh! 🙂 Aside to **davidmich** –you’re quite welcome, and I’m sure that the Canadian Dopers will look forward to your commentary and further questions as you read our history. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-history-of-canada-that-makes-for-a-compelling-read/675531/22 "2013-12-06T14:52:04Z")
> [@Beelzebubba](#): > > Canada has given us some wonderful gifts- Maple Syrup and Anne Murray alone are reason enough to love them!!! 😛 > > Seriously though, every time I visit Toronto, I always start thinking about what a great place it would be to live! Especially when I’ve spent any time in Chicago (or God forbid, Detroit), the Toronto area seems like Heaven on Earth! So much less crime and poverty and it’s so clean! The Canucks that I’ve encountered have also been such genuinely kind and friendly people…the difference compared to large Northern U.S. cities is pretty sad… > > And I’ll admit it, I am a 39-year old man and I really do love Anne Murray’s music! Blame my mom! 😃 With Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Stan Rogers to choose from, you prefer Anne Murray? Actually, my favorite Canadian singer is the essentially unknown Carol Welsman. ---
**Author:** ![Beelzebubba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Beelzebubba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beelzebubba)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-history-of-canada-that-makes-for-a-compelling-read/675531/23 "2013-12-06T15:01:22Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > With Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Stan Rogers to choose from, you prefer Anne Murray? Actually, my favorite Canadian singer is the essentially unknown Carol Welsman. Yep, I was country when country wasn’t cool, I suppose…“Shadows In The Moonlight” is one of my all-time favorite songs! In 1980, when I was 5, my mom bought a '77 Olds Cutlass Supreme from my cousin. It was the loaded 'Brougham" 2-door with every option available including the AM/FM 8-track stereo. Ronnie Milsap, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John and Linda Rondstadt rounded out our extensive 8-track collection and we listened to them over and over until she traded it for an '86 Cutlass Supreme in Nov 1985. Then we upgraded to cassette! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-history-of-canada-that-makes-for-a-compelling-read/675531/24 "2013-12-06T21:26:11Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > With Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Stan Rogers to choose from, you prefer Anne Murray? Actually, my favorite Canadian singer is the essentially unknown Carol Welsman. … Neil Young, Robbie Robertson, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Oscar Peterson, Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip, Michael Buble, Shania Twain, Rush, Daniel Lanois … the list goes on and on. ---
**Author:** ![Throbert\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/57b2e6/32.png) [@Throbert\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throbert_McGee)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-history-of-canada-that-makes-for-a-compelling-read/675531/25 "2013-12-06T21:55:30Z")
\*\*STEWARDESS: \*\*Would you like something to read, ma’am? **LITTLE OLD LADY:** Do you have anything light? **STEWARDESS:** Umm, how about this leaflet – _Famous Jewish Sports Heroes_. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-history-of-canada-that-makes-for-a-compelling-read/675531/26 "2013-12-30T16:20:39Z")
If you don’t mind a book about a specific Canadian event, I can recommend this book on the Halifax explosion: [Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917](http://www.amazon.com/Curse-Narrows-Halifax-Disaster-1917/dp/0802715109http://) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-history-of-canada-that-makes-for-a-compelling-read/675531.md?page=1)