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Book Review: In Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities, historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead offers a finely crafted and carefully researched glimpse into the lives of slaves who fled the fledgling United States as Britain’s last stronghold, in New York, began to crumble.

Touring Newfoundland’s haunting Bonavista Peninsula.

Between 1905 and 2005 Alberta and Saskatchwan grew apart. 

Book Review: Financial equalization, providing similar levels of public services at similar levels of taxation, is Canada’s main solution to spreading wealth between have and have-not provinces.

Book Review: At a time when the role of the British monarchy has once again come into question in Canada, Canadian Spy Story offers interesting historical background about a period when a small group of committed Irish nationalists swam against the Loyalist tide and sought to draw Canada into the uprising against British rule.

Howie Morenz was ranked by The Hockey News as the 15th best player in hockey history. Yet, with all that accomplished during his life, he is still more commonly known for his untimely death.

The award is presented annually to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past.

There is more to Calgary than Stampede and cowboys.

Book Review: Many historians would love to have the chance to redo their most important works. This book is an expanded, updated, and much-improved version of a book Gough wrote in 1971. Britannia’s Navy will help to inform researchers and scholars for decades to come.

JoAnn Roe tours Heritage Ghost Town, near Revelstoke, British Columbia, where the spirit of the frontier lives on.