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.
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.
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?
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.