Maclean's

As Canada nurses its World Junior wounds, a look back at former Leafs coach Joe Primeau’s 1945 reminder that there’s ’nothing as unpredictable as a junior hockey player’

In 1944, Maclean’s war correspondent asks: What does Christmas mean in a world torn apart by the greatest war in history?

From 1942: A reflection on Confederation’s first three-quarters of a century

2,500,000 new-born dolls lead the Canadian parade of 1938

From October 1938: Ten years ago Flin Flon was a struggling mining camp in the wilderness; today it is Manitoba’s third city

From the archives: A Dominion Day confession of faith

From 1936: In the 1930s Maclean’s helped reunite Canadians with more than $600,000 they’d forgotten about in dormant bank accounts

’No one will ever know what Vimy cost. But this I can say: It was too much’

From February 1933: To increase Dominion notes in proportion to current Government deficits . . . . is a thoroughly unscientific and dangerous policy

Daintiness and charm should carry the day, with a little help from heart-shaped gelantin molds