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Elsbeth Heaman wins top prize for academic writing in Canadian history for her book Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867–1917. 

In this activity, students will explore a selection of textile artifacts that highlight women’s fashion from several decades of Canadian history.

People loved their beer. Yet when zealous prohibitionists launched a holy crusade against the brewers, the brewers lost.

Technocracy promised Depression-weary Canadians an end to their hardship. But the offer came with a catch.

An excavation of the Parliament of the Province of Canada reveals glimpses of political life in Victorian-era Montreal.

In the 1940s contralto Portia May White was celebrated as Canada’s singing sensation.

For generations, society has historically expected women to not only do the laundry — but to do it well..

Like children in other late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Canadian communities, boys in colliery towns and villages worked.

On the eve of the Second World War, England worried for its wealth. War was costly. But the gold to pay the price of victory lay vulnerable in London. The solution — ship England’s treasure overseas, to Canada. And so began Operation Fish.

When an impulsive young adventurer asked a crusty seaman if they could sail around the world in a small craft, he told him he could go one better — they could cross three oceans in a canoe. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing.