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Ruined maids and fallen women: Back in the days when men were men and women were property, a court might try a cad. Particularly if dad was mad.

Book Review: While Polar Winds recounts extraordinary tales of adventure, tragedy, and intrigue, it’s also a history of everyday life in the North. Readers will find themselves interested to learn about the complex impact aviation had on communication, health care, education, and the economy for Canada’s northern residents.

Learn how propaganda was used to sway public opinion during the First World War.

Book Review: What seemed like a golden opportunity for ranchers in the 1880s soured when the chinook winds failed to arrive in the winters of 1886–87 and 1906–7.

The website is designed for use by students ages nine to twelve years old and invites students to learn about exploration as they navigate the website. 

Use this activity and the 2017 Summer issue of Kayak ​to engage your students with the concept of Confederation by asking them to think about it happening today! 

Sir John A. Macdonald Prize awarded for her book French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest. In it, she explores the influence that French Canadians and their Indigenous partners had in the making of the Pacific Northwest during the 19th through the 21st centuries.

The Public Health Nurse lives at Whitehorse but has to journey to all parts of the Yukon.

Dominique Deslandres presents at the 2015 Canada’s History Forum.

When it comes to social change, these Canadians made history.