Writings by Charlotte
Articles by Charlotte
- “Conquering Canada:” review of Stephen Bown’s “The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire."
(Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2020)
- “Other People’s Gold Dust”; a review of Paul Starobin’s A Most Wicked Conspiracy, about the Alaska Gold Rush
(Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2020)
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The Search for Amelia Earhart shows why some mysteries should never be solved
(The Globe and Mail, August 25, 2019)
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Murder, She Writes: Why I returned to true crime
(Literary Review of Canada, September, 2019)
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Widening Our Views: Understanding Canadian History requires both Context and a Sense of Proportion
(Canadian History, February-March, 2019)
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Widening Our Views: Understanding Canadian History requires both Context and a Sense of Proportion
(Canadian History, February-March, 2019)
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“Meanwhile, in Another Forest,” review of Dead Tree Media, Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth Century North America” by Michael Stamm
(Literary Review of Canada, November, 2018)
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Canada 150, doomed from the start, now ends with a whimper
(The Globe and Mail, December 2017)
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A Strangely Obtuse Country
(Literary Review of Canada, March 2016)
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Too Big to Film
(Canada's History, December, 2013)
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Prime Minister in Waiting
(The Walrus, November, 2013)
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True Fictions
(Quill & Quire, September, 2013)
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We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now
(Smithsonian Magazine, May, 2013)
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Good riddance, Disneyland North
(Ottawa Citizen, December 14, 2012)
- On Wings of Ecstasy
(Cottage Life, Winter 2012)
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A Century at the Centre of Capital Buzz
(Ottawa Citizen, June 2, 2012)
- Reign Maker: Governor General David Johnston
(Walrus, January/Februrary 2012)
- After the Gold Rush
(Canada's History, December 2010)
- Q & A: Charlotte Gray on Gold Diggers
(More.ca, November 2010)
- Faded Hero
(Walrus, October 2010)
- Hundertwasser makes a splash
(Brick 84, Winter 2010)
- The Biography Trust-Busters
(Queen’s Quarterly, Winter 2009)
- Canada’s Homeless Portrait Gallery
(Literary Review of Canada, Dec 2008)
- Into the Wilderness
(National Post, Aug 23, 2008)
- Naomi Klein: The Making of a Global Activist
(Chatelaine, Oct 2007)
- The Miracle of the Rideau Canal
(The Ottawa Citizen, Aug 15, 2007)
- Yours, Mine and Ours: When does it become 'Our' History?
(The Ottawa Citizen, Mar 31, 2007)
- Country's Portrait needs a Gallery
(The Ottawa Citizen, Feb 8, 2007)
- "Who does she think she is?" Profile of Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson
(Toronto Star, May 15, 2005)
- Canada's Storyteller (Pierre Berton)
(Quill and Quire, Jan 2005)
- Under Wraps
(Globe and Mail, Jan 8, 2005)
- Why I Give Sir John an A
(Globe and Mail, Nov 25, 2004)
- History is King
(National Post, Dec 27, 2004)
- Carol (memoir of Carol Shields)
(Ottawa Citizen, Jul 20, 2003)
- Lodged at Pine Island
(Globe and Mail, Jun 27, 2003)
- End Notes - Why Me?
(Ottawa Citizen, Sep 15, 2002)
- Dominion Institute and Canadian History
(Globe and Mail, Apr 29, 2002)
- Historical Letters in Modern Dress
(Ottawa Citizen, Feb 24, 2002)
- Facts and Arguments: Letters from ... past
(Globe and Mail, Feb 1, 2002)
- The New Biography
(Queen's Quarterly, Summer 2001)
- History Wars
(Saturday Night, Oct 7, 2000)
- Biography of My Biography
(National Post, Oct 29, 1999)
- Mattie Sure Shot: Photographing during B.C.’s turn-of-the-century mining boom, Mattie Gunterman preserved a pioneering era
(Canadian Geographic, Mar/Apr 2000)
- Monthly columns on Ottawa
(Saturday Night, 1985-1993)
