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Sons of Freedom

As an article in the February-March 2013 issue of Canada’s History describes, the Sons of Freedom had a troubled history in Western Canada. Known for their nude protests and for setting fires, members of the breakaway Doukhobor sect also had their children taken away from them.

Revisiting Shell Shock on Let's Talk Day

February 12 marks a national campaign to discuss mental illness and show support for Canadian mental health programs. Our veterans were asked to make great sacrifices and when they came with shell shock, we turned a blind eye. Here are some of their stories.

Heroine of the North-West Resistance

There are many ways to view the armed conflict of 1885. Past issues of The Beaver included a more personal story. Elizabeth McLean’s account of her experience as a captive of the Cree is surprisingly enlightened for its time.

Meet your marker

Regular genealogy columnist Paul Jones welcomes the new advances in DNA testing.

Enemy Aliens

Exhibit from the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre explores Canada’s WWII internment of Jewish refugees.

Inuit portrait rescued from obscurity

Parks Canada historian Marianne P. Stopp came across a previously lost pencil drawing by an unknown artist that shows a group of Labrador Inuit brought to England in 1772 by Captain George Cartwright. Stopp had read about the portrait, but its existence was unconfirmed and its whereabouts had been unknown for two centuries.

Journal shines a light on Canada's military past

Canadian Military History (CMH) faces a money crunch after funding from the Department of National Defence was cut for the journal, as well as for the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies with which it is connected. Copp believes donors have helped to secure the journal’s future until 2015.

My History Museum: Public Consultations

This fall, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian War Museum are asking: What would you put in your national history museum? What stories would you tell? This is your chance to help build a museum.

Prairie reunion: Scottish clan reunited with Métis descendants

Sir James Grant, Lord Strathspey, chief of the Clan Grant of Scotland, was in Canada this July to participate in Cuthbert Grant Day celebrations and to formally reunite his clan with long-separated Canadian branches of the family.

Henderson’s Hockey Heroics with Don Newman

CBC icon Don Newman shares his personal memories of Paul Henderson’s series-winning goal in Moscow.

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