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Fiction Feature: Not everyone approves when a Victoria woman and her niece go pedalling in the park.

Bicycles

Canada’s history on two wheels.

Headstrong Heiress

Victoria’s Kathleen Dunsmuir chased fame and spent a fortune.

Gravelbourg Convent

The convent is an important historical marker of French settlement in western Canada.

Weaving Connections

Unique exchange brings together Indigenous artists and museum staff.

The Doctor Is In

Jennie Trout broke barriers to become Canada’s first female physician.

Thundering Chuckwagons

One hundred years of Canada’s most electrifying horse race.

Nobel Pursuit

How Ernest Rutherford’s Montreal research won the world’s top science prize.
 

Beyond Brutal Passions

Book Review: In Beyond Brutal Passions, historian Mary Anne Poutanen traces the largely ignored lives of women in the sex trade in nineteenth-century Montreal, illustrating that these women were much more than the sum of their work.


Trance Speakers

Book Review: In Victorian society, women were seen as inherently passive, but author Claudie Massicotte shows how spiritualists used the role of medium to turn this fragility into a strength.