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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.


Living Well Together

Understanding Treaties as agreements to share.


Canadian Retropets

Was there a lovable fur-ever friend in your past? An incorrigible canine or bunny bestie? Send us a photo and a short description of your retropet and you could see them published in Canada’s History magazine.


Connecting with the land

Q&A: An early French trader valued life far from European culture.


Path of Most Resistance

Exploring the flashpoints of Louis Riel’s 1885 uprising.