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Book review: Lezlie Lowe, a Halifax-based journalist, tells the story of Halifax as it throbbed with tens of thousands of service personnel who brought both excitement and trouble in their wake.

Nellie McClung and a group of devoted suffragists stage their mock parliament to make a point about women’s equality.

Women embraced the abundance of colours of glass beads to create beautiful designs, like this elaborate and symmetrical floral pattern.

Kaur Collective builds community through prayers.

Book Review: Working for the Common Good highlights the work of eight Canadian women: Agnes Macphail, Thérèse Casgrain, Grace MacInnis, Pauline Jewett, Margaret Mitchell, Lynn McDonald, Audrey McLaughlin, and Alexa McDonough.

Book Review: In Boom & Bust, author Jennifer Butler asked mothers, daughters, and granddaughters to tell their families’ collective memories of living in an isolated community.

Combining two or more seemingly unrelated content topics in order to better include multiple and diverse historical perspectives.

Book Review: Illustrated with hundreds of photos, It’s Our Game explores three main periods: up to 1945, 1946 to 1983, and 1984 to the present. One hundred brief chapters are presented in chronological order. They cover topics ranging from hockey during the war years, to The Hockey Handbook — which changed how the sport was conceived and taught — to Canada’s women’s team at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Book Review: After discovering that her great-grandmother died in a tragic fire on Manitoba’s Lake Winnipeg, Lorri Neilsen Glenn sets out to learn her story.

With a few threads and an eye for detail, the unappealing pantry bag became a Depression-era fashion item for working-class women in rural Canada.