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The Making of the October Crisis

September 5, 2018 9:46 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

Started the research in March 2014, shortly after the release of my centennial history of the NHL. Made many trips to Montreal to do archival research and to visit sites associated with terrorist acts committed by members of the FLQ.

At Trent University

September 5, 2018 9:46 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

With the Faryon Bridge in the background. I was at work on Trent University: Celebrating 50 years of Excellence, an official history of the institution where I began my own post-secondary studies. Interviewed students, faculty, administrators and every living president, including the incomparable founding president T.H.B. Symons.

Air Canada Centre

September 5, 2018 9:45 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

For a Leafs game day skate in February 2013. Finishing up my centennial history of the NHL. Launched the project by interviewing Gary Bettman at NHL headquarters in New York.

Wood Mountain

September 5, 2018 9:20 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

July 1998: Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, where Sitting Bull and five thousand desperate Sioux sought refuge after the Battle of the Little Bighorn (a.k.a. Custer’s Last Stand) on June 25, 1876.