Leo J Deveau

Andrew Coyne hits the nail on the head. Makes one wonder what all those well advertised graduating classes of MBAs, and others in the professional classes, have been up to. https://lnkd.in/eszpbJG3

The new book, 1867 Project Why Canada Should Be Cherished - Not Cancelled, recently hit #1 on Amazon's Top 100 list on Canada Day! I am one of 19 authors who share various reflections. My piece - 'Halifax Cancels its founding father: The case of…

For all those interested in informed perspectives on a number of topics.

This coming spring/summer issue of The Dorchester Review has a number of informative pieces, including my take on the debacle that removed the statue of Governor Colonel Edward Cornwallis in Halifax.

For the folks who like to blame and shame about what they think is wrong with this country (Canada), maybe it's time to go to Moscow to see how protests are treated under a repressive authoritarian system. Or more importantly, go to Ukraine to see…

On this Valentine's Day in 1929, CJCB radio began broadcasting from Sydney, Nova Scotia. By the late 1930’s, CJCB would also have a Scottish program that went out over the CBC network. It was called ‘Cotter’s Saturday Night,’ and consisted of music,…

My last column for 2021 - This Week in Nova Scotia History: Dec. 20-26. Everything from the Governor Cornwallis ferry fire (in 1944), to the well-known entrepreneur Roy A. Jodrey (1888-1973); from the best pair of skates (in 1866), to the city's…

My column this week adds contexts to various historical events in our province’s history. Hope you enjoy. I’m always open to feedback and comments!

There’s lots to think about and reflect upon on this Canada Day - both to celebrate and to make better. I think this commentary gets it right. Happy Canada Day everyone!

My column for This Week in Nova Scotia History, June 21-27, provides a little different take for 21 June in Nova Scotia - in 1749 when the British settlement in Halifax/Chebuctou/K'jipuktuk was established, and other informative entries.

It’s time for HRM to seek a public-owned civic initiative to restore the site - one that respects both the original memorial intentions of the site, and the thousands of bodies buried there…

It’s important to know the whole picture.

Here is a copy of the ad that ran today/Tuesday, January 12th in the National Post. Feel free to share!

An ad I signed with a number of other authors, commentators and historians in Canada ran today/Tuesday, 12 January, in the National Post. It is offered to my Linkedin contacts as another perspective on the matter of selective history that often…

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My most recent book has just been released. It was undertaken as an initiative to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of one of the oldest militia regiments in Canada, The Princess Louise Fusiliers, based here in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Copies can be…

Tomorrow the HRM municipal election takes place. As Vice-Chair of the Halifax Military Heritage Preservation Society, I and my fellow directors released a 'reality check' statement to all the candidates regarding the recommendations of the Task Force…

So now what? The Task Force on the Commemoration of Edward Cornwallis... may recommend getting rid of a statue, but that doesn't address how non-Indigenous HRM residents should now recognize the establishment of the British colony in Nova Scotia in…

Nothing left to say - finally!

There’ll be different perspectives on my commentary today/Sat. in the Chronicle-Herald. But it’s time to ask some hard questions.