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Q & A: Author and social-justice advocate Rosemary Sadlier looks back on her integral role in this significant national recognition.

Sixty creative, innovative and sometimes mind-boggling contributions Canadians have made to the world.

Oscar Peterson, 100 years of our Jazz Man. Plus: cheesy cash, saving Toronto's Chinatown, a headstrong heiress and genealogy gaffes.

Canadian paratroopers at the end of the Second World War. Plus: The postwar housing crisis, Filipina garment workers and the revolutionary past of Thomas D’Arcy McGee.

Throughout the 1850s, the legendary Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman planned her operations from a base in Upper Canada.

Book review: In David A. Borys' latest book, Punching Above Our Weight, images of “Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl” spoke volumes about this country’s steps forward in wartime.

Restless and innovative, Doris Slater Titus began by drawing comics before shifting to abstract art.

Adopting the alias Pearl Hart, Lillie Davy escaped from a hardscrabble childhood with determination and a six-shooter.

The Supreme Court of Canada was not always as supreme as its name suggests. Since 1875 the court has grown in importance alongside the country’s increasingly independent legal landscape.

In this lesson, students will work with a variety of primary sources and analyze each source for knowledge and meaning.