April-May 2025

See what’s available in the April-May 2025 issue of Canada’s History.

Posted March 5, 2025
Cover of the April-May 2025 issue of Canada's History featuring an illustration of a paratrooper in mid-air.

April-May 2025

Features

Home Aid

How the federal government confronted the postwar housing crisis. by John Lorinc

The Orator of Confederation

Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s golden words helped to conjure Canada into existence — but his Irish revolutionary past came back to haunt him. by David A. Wilson

Airborne Assault

Canadian paratroopers fought the Nazis and outflanked the Soviets in the dying days of the Second World War. by James Jackson

Tailor Made

Thousands of Filipina garment workers found a better life in Canada, thanks to a unique labourimmigration scheme. by John Malek

On the Cover

A member of the 1stCanadian Parachute Battaliondescends from the sky in adigital painting by award-winningillustratorRobert Carter.

Departments

EDITOR’s Note

Home truths.

The Packet

Basketball diaries. The gift of Oscar Peterson. On board for cheese. A mountain of memories. Past imperfect.

Currents

Photographic Memory: Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope. Women pioneer baseball under the stars. Heritage seeds. The Supreme Court of Canada at 150. Made in Canada: The Jolly Jumper. Signpost: Oshawa. Q&A with author Stephen R. Bown. On guard for teeth.

Trading Post

An ulu with a slate cutting edge might have been used to scrape animal skins, to chop meat, and to make clothing.

Destinations

Polish-Canadian heritage is preserved in the Ottawa Valley. At the museums: Montreal’s Saint-Henri neighbourhood, Northwest Coast women carvers.

Books

Thrills and bills. Familial ties. More with less. More books: The birth of television, forgotten athletes, heroes turned villains, West Coast stories, industrialized Cape Breton, and a sensational trial. Read them all

History Matters

Five ways to build a more inclusive history.

Album

Peanut fumigators pose beside a train in Hamilton.

Themes associated with this article

Related to In This Issue

February-March 2025

Oscar Peterson, 100 years of our Jazz Man. Plus: cheesy cash, saving Toronto's Chinatown, a headstrong heiress and genealogy gaffes.

Article

April-May 2022

See what’s available in the April-May 2022 issue of Canada’s History.

Article

Garbage

For as long as there have been people living in what we know as Canada, there’s been trash to deal with.

Article

We are all Treaty People

Guest editor Cynthia Bird of Peguis First Nation explores Treaties and the historic Treaty relationship between First Nations peoples and the British Crown, now represented by the government of Canada.

Article