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      <title><![CDATA[Why Write a Biography?]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19969]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Most biographies are written about people who are well known – artists, politicians, porn stars, 
whatever – but I chose to write a biography of Louis D. Taylor for the opposite reason, because I’d never heard of him.  Taylor was Vancouver’s&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Voting Against Change in BC]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19924]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Many British Columbians could be found Wednesday morning crying great tears of disappointment into their coffee cups. No, it wasn’t the defeat of our beloved Canucks in the Stanley Cup playoffs on Monday night (though that still hurts). Rather it&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Making History in British Columbia]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19829]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[When British Columbians go to the polls in a provincial election on May 12, they will be doing more than choosing a new government. For the second straight election, they will also be voting in a referendum asking them whether they are in favour of&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[BRITISH COLUMBIA’S EMBARRASSING SLOGAN]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19738]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Reading Gaston Deschênes’ recent post about the Quebec motto, “je me souviens”, I felt envious. Envious because instead of a modestly evocative provincial motto, rooted in history, we here in British Columbia must endure an inane slogan invented by&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[The Day I Met Sir John A]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19573]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Reading Brian McKillop’s new biography of Pierre Berton, I was reminded of the day I met John A. Macdonald.  In 1974 the CBC televised an eight-part adaptation of Berton’s railway books. Berton, no stranger to television, narrated the series&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[USES OF HISTORY]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19546]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Wasn’t it gratifying, during the recent hijinks on Parliament Hill, to notice how often the past was invoked to explain, speculate and clarify? It was as if the whole country was attending an introductory history seminar, learning the difference&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[A LEFT COAST LIST]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19540]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[The holiday season seems to bring out the list-maker in people, and I’m not talking about everyone’s wish list for Santa. It is the time of year when critics of all persuasions draw up lists of the ten best this and the twenty worst that. In the&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Academic Writers Block]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19470]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Do Canada’s academic historians have a collective case of writers’ block?  I’ve been getting the impression lately that Canadian academics are not producing much in the way of readable history books for the general public. Deciding to test this&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Down What Memory Hole?]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19375]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[In her Remembrance Day column in  The Globe and Mail , Margaret Wente repeats the familiar lament that Canadians do not know their own history, particularly their own military history.  “The immense saga of Canada at war is disappearing down the&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[There's No Conflict in Conflict]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19290]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Leafing through the autumn book announcements in a recent Quill and Quire, I was struck by the preponderance of upcoming non-fiction titles devoted to military history. Books about Canada at war – by both academic and popular writers -- dominated&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>Daniel Francis</dc:creator>
      
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