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David Brian and Stephen Punga

David Brian and Stephen Punga’s students published an interactive map and database of headstones belonging primarily to settlers of African descent in Essex County, Ontario.


Snapshots of the Rural Past

Facebook groups preserve rural history by photographing abandoned buildings.


Transcription of The Basques: Retracing History

Transcription of The Basques: Retracing History

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography

The DCB/DBC is an extraordinary combination of scholarship and accessibility, making it our country's most reliable biographical source of information on the great names of our shared past. .


The Virtue of Tolerance

Canada’s reputation for tolerance owes much to one Canadian whose human rights legacy lives on today.  


The Toronto Book of the Dead

The Toronto Book of the Dead by Adam Bunch is an engaging and fascinating look into some of the darker moments of Toronto’s past.


The Great Absquatulator

Book Review: An absquatulator, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a person who departs from a scene hurriedly and furtively, often to avoid arrest. Such a man was Alfred Thomas Wood, a nineteenth-century charlatan who bluffed his way across three continents, usually (but not always) one step ahead of both the law and his hoodwinked marks.


Roots: Chemical Reactions

DNA testing may expose skeletons in your closet.


Inuit Life in Transition

Open Book: Richard Harrington: Arctic Photography 1948–53 presents more than one hundred black-and-white photographs recording Inuit art, hunting, and daily life.

Michele Schwab

Michele Schwab wanted to create an opportunity for her students to make connections with local kêhtê-ayak (Cree for old ones) and knowledge carriers from Starblanket Cree Nation, Little Black Bear First Nation, Okanese First Nation, and Peepeekisis First Nation.