Just Another Minute: More Glimpses of Our Great Canadian Heritage

Barry M. Gough is a professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University
and the author of The Northwest Coast: British Navigation, Trade, and
Discoveries to 1812 and First Across the Continent.

Fifty-six vignettes constitute this charming sequel to Marsha
Boulton’s Just a Minute. Anecdotes as history are, in a special way, a
trivialization of lives lived and events recorded. However, many readers
like history served up piecemeal, and this book reminds readers that
Canada’s past is replete with all sorts of interesting, even curious,
tales. In this volume, we have an account of scurvy in the French
colonial era, of bride-ships, and of Martin Frobisher and the first
Canadian gold rush. Jerry Potts and Crowfoot provide some Albertan
content, Hanging Judge Begby, some British Columbian, and Martha Black,
some Yukon material.

Boulton has a strong following; one hopes that this book will prompt
readers to take our national history as seriously as she does.