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

How a chance encounter with The Beaver’s editor launched the author’s decades-long writing career.

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

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

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. 

Moccasins are among the most abundant articles of clothing housed in Canadian museum collections.