Comfort and care. Those are the words linked to the thousands of quilts made by women volunteers during the Second World War. Of all the services that women provided for wartime relief, perhaps the making of quilts represented the most intimate…

The Second World War was a terrifying time for Jews throughout the world. It would take the end of the war and liberating death camps for people to realize the full extent to which Jews were persecuted under the Nazi regime. Canada was not immune to…

In 1936, the recently widowed Flora Marsh (nee MacQuarrie) and her family of four teenaged children moved from Sydney, Cape Breton, to Halifax. The children grew up in a household rich with music, their mother a talented pianist from a musical…