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Canoes

Book Review: Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims bring forth the essence of the nineteenth-century existential movement in their new book, Canoes: A Natural History in North America


Canada's History Travel Tours

All aboard to celebrate Canada’s history with Rail Travel Tours, travelling Canada by rail to the Atlantic, Pacific or Arctic coast.


October-November 2022

See what’s available in the October-November 2022 issue of Canada’s History.


We Are All Treaty People

In this lesson students will explore Treaty Relationships in Canada through a simulation and inquiry project. 


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Walking on the Lands of Our Ancestors

This lesson is an experiential approach to Indigenous people’s history.


Yukon Rising

First a boom. Then a bust. Then another boom. Then a bust. For nearly 160 years, Fort Selkirk followed fortune’s fancy. Now its champions are ensuring it’s here to stay.


A Pox on Our Nation

Much of Canada’s early history was shaped by the presence of smallpox, a “speckled monster” as deadly as Ebola that wiped out whole communities. Could the disease rise again?


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Moccasins and Book

Items including moccasins and a book that were used by Philip de Carteret when he worked as a trapper and fur trader for Revillon Frères and the Hudson’s Bay Company between 1929 and 1934 in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec are profiled.