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Marie–Anne

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


Colourful Northern History

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


Inside the Display Case

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


Transcription of the video Origins

Nicole O’Bomsawin, of the Abenaki First Nation, shares some of the history of the First Nations that have been established in the Montreal area for centuries.

The Numbered Treaties

Western Canada’s Treaties were intended to provide frameworks for respectful coexistence.


HBC History Has a Hawaiian Chapter

The Hudson's Bay Company is usually associated with chilly northern outposts on the Bay. But there was one glaring tropical exception.


Christmas at Moose Factory

Doug Sinclair and Eduard Buckman, the film crew for Fur Country, struggle with the terrain, which delays their arrival in Moose Factory until Christmas afternoon.


Making it Count

Canada’s first census was launched in 1666, but it took three hundred years to be truly completed — by a rebel historian who championed Quebec’s Quiet Revolution.


Thanadelthur

One of the few women to have been accorded a place in the history of the Canadian North is Thanadelthur, more widely known as the Slave Woman.


Lawbreakers in the "Mild West"

More hustlers, rustlers and wild men.