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One of Canada’s leading business social scientists, Peter Baskerville is professor of history, University of Victoria, in-coming chair of Modern Western Canadian History, University of Alberta, and the author of…

A study of what Canadian place names reveal about the country’s self-image.  Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them disentangles the distinct cultural, religious, and political naming practices in…

Growing up on St. Lawrence Boulevard, Phil Gold never aspired to be a doctor. But working as an encyclopedia salesman, a bottle washer at Molson, and a fur-coat schlepper in…