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Marking a century of The Beaver. See what’s available in the October-November 2020 issue of Canada’s History.

“As an Indigenous person, I am looking at the pictures in The Beaver differently. I am looking at the things that make Indigenous peoples and communities strong...”

When Europeans starting coming to North America to live, they changed everything. How did they affect the people who were already here? Where did the newcomers come from and where did they settle? And how did they live?

In this lesson, students will create and perform a puppet play about the Battle of Seven Oaks.

A distinctive people, a distinctive language. Is it any wonder the Métis also built distinctive homes?

Book Review: Frances Backhouse has blended natural history, anthropology, science, and adventure into a compelling account of our national symbol. In Once They Were Hats, she sketches the role of beavers within First Peoples’ cultures, and she discusses the beaver’s importance as a keystone species.

Book Review: Siggins’ newest book is far from just a sober account of a pioneer life — it bursts with memorable, sometimes humorous, anecdotes.

Huge new murals add to the belugas, polar bears, and aurora borealis seen in and around Churchill, Manitoba.

From Vancouver’s nineteenth-century opium dens, to the 1970s hashish trade through Montreal’s French Connection, drug use and abuse has created subcultures with their own personalities and rituals. 

Guest editor Magda Fahrni reflects on the importance of preserving, conserving, restoring, and showcasing the objects that have marked our past.