December 2024-January 2025

See what’s available in the December 2024-January 2025 issue of Canada’s History.

Posted October 24, 2024
Cover of the December 2024-January 2025 issue of <em>Canada's History</em> featuring a colour illustration of a beaver against a red background.
Cover of the December 2024-January 2025 issue of Canada's History.

December 2024-January 2025

Features

Beaver Tales

Reflections on fifty years — and beyond — of our furry national symbol. by Nicholas Hamilton

From Head Tax to Hockey Heroes

How Canadians’ favourite sport helped a Chinese immigrant family find acceptance in small-town Ontario. by Debbie Jiang

Rocky Mountain Highlanders

Two Scottish sisters brought music, merriment, and good management to the CPR’s alpine hotels. by Ross Lambertson

Nunavut’s Unfulfilled Promise

On the territory’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the Inuit language remains precarious. by John Bainbridge

On the Cover

Award-winning illustrator Robert Carter created this digital painting of a beaver based on a photograph by Allan Colton found in the feature article “Beaver Tales.”

Departments

Editor’s Note

Eager ecologists.

The Packet

Milking it. Yukon gold. Unsettled debate.

Currents

Object of interest: Horse-drawn sleigh. Olympic throwers. Controversial persons. By the numbers: Airline merger. Microfinance pioneer. History maker: Judy LaMarsh. Made in Canada: Electric light bulb. Signposts: Regina.

Trading Post

The Hudson’s Bay Company produced Christmas gift hampers containing liquor and smoking supplies.

Destinations

At the Museums: Modern prairie architect, Toronto abstract painter.

Books

Tracing the line. Ambitious spokespeople. Forgotten masterpieces. More books: Murder most foul, filming Canadian nature, Newfoundland Constabulary, amplifying Asian voices. Read them all

Book and Gift Guide

Our twenty-first annual special advertising section includes books for history lovers and all readers.

Album

A teenaged Edmonton girl proudly played basketball for the McDougall Commercial High School team.

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