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In this activity, students will analyze a selection of primary documents from the First World War.

Pierre Berton was a journalist, editor, TV personality — but most of all — historian, for transforming Canadian history into chart-topping best sellers.

The story of Canada’s volcanic past is written in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

The 1918 flu epidemic felled nearly as many Canadians as the preceding war.

After 175 years, searchers close in on answers to what actually doomed the tragic 1845 Northwest Passage voyage.

This song by The Kilts is dedicated to young Robert Sidey, a boy with Down’s syndrome who was institutionalized at the Huronia Institution in 1956 at the age of three. He died there of untreated pneumonia in 1961.

Book Review: In her latest book, Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture, Maria Tippett returns to Emily Carr and Bill Reid and considers them alongside six other “cultural producers” with ties to the province she now calls home. Her goal, as explained in the epilogue, is to tell “the story of how British Columbia’s culture was shaped during the twentieth century.”

Chilkat blankets are one of the best examples of the Northwest Coast’s exceptional weaving industry.

From Don Mills to Paradise Crescent: The great post-war migration.

On the 175th anniversary of Wilfrid Laurier’s birth, three writers weigh in with their thoughts on a prime minister who stood firmly on middle ground.