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Mapmaker

Book Review: Mitchell establishes her interest in Turnor through genealogy — she is a direct descendent of the map-maker and, like him, is descended from Orkney Scottish and Cree ancestors from the eighteenth century


Classroom Fight

Fiction Feature: It’s Manitoba in 1888. Is it better for French-speaking and English-speaking friends to go to school together, or to have a chance to learn in their own language?


Biography of HBC co-founder claims RBC Taylor Prize

Other Canadian history books receive multiple 2020 award nominations.


Distorted Descent

Book Review: Distorted Descent is a scathing critique of white people claiming “métis” status for personal gain.


Invisible Generations

Book Review: Invisible Generations is a carefully written book anchored in the author’s friendship with a mixed-race schoolteacher.


The Last Battle of Seven Oaks

Fiction feature: Young boys relive a deadly battle about furs and food.


Out of Everyday Life, Into the Museum

Should ordinary objects be preserved?


Treaties in Canada

In this guide, educators share how they teach Treaties in the classroom, including advice, online resources, books, and lesson plans.


Reconciliation into the Classroom Transcript

Bringing reconciliation into the classroom and the community Transcript

James Daschuk

In this sweeping and disturbing account, James Daschuk chronicles the role that epidemic disease, global trade, the changing environment and government policy had on the lives of Aboriginals living on the Canadian Plains from the early eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth.