Canada Year by Year

author: Elizabeth MacLeod
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2016/12/10
date added: 2016/12/10
shelves: children-s, non-fiction
review:
'Canada Year by Year' by Elizabeth MacLeod with illustrations by Sydney Smith is a younger readers overview of the history of Canada, and it's timed for next year's 150th anniversary.

The book has 10 chapters for distinct eras. Every year gets a paragraph of notable events or history. Topics include everything from politics to sports and culture. The famous Canadians that aren't featured in the book get mentioned in an appendix at the end.

Starting with the birth of the country on July 1st, 1867, we learn about the fathers of confederation, the Fenian raids, British home children, women's rights, indigenous people's rights, the fight for English or French to be the main language. We learn about the invention of basketball, the telephone, the Canadarm, and indoor hockey. We learn about the contributions of Canadian armed forces in the world wars and more recently in Afghanistan.

Every year can't be covered in such a concise manner, but the breadth of things covered is impressive. As someone who lives in the US, I'm not as familiar with Canadian history, so I learned quite a few things. Controversial topics are not shied away from, and are covered and presented pretty neutrally. It's funny that the last entry is for 2017, as I read this in 2016, and it's also written in the past tense, but I assume that's for future readers. The illustrations and layout of this book are great. The pages are broken up in interesting ways and there are trivia facts and quotes along with the caricature style of illustration.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Kids Can Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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