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We asked five historians to come up with who they thought was Canada’s greatest explorer. Some of their picks were expected, some were not.

A look at the Underground Railroad and anti-slavery movement in Canada.

Mother-of-pearl gaming counters with elaborate patterns were used during card games.

Our 16^th annual advertising section offers a wide selection of books and gifts for Canadian history lovers.

War, pestilence, and fire were the constant enemies of the young Augustinian nurses. But they persevered. Today the Hôtel-Dieu de Quebec stands testimony to their faith and charity.

What began as a ‘Victorian gentleman’s club’ one hundred years ago has evolved into the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada we know today.

Reading List: A selection of new and recent Canadian Indigenous-history books.

Celebrating Canada’s history makers, creating compelling content, connecting with kids, supporting history education and research, and learning from Canada’s young storytellers.

Book Review: In Beyond Brutal Passions, historian Mary Anne Poutanen traces the largely ignored lives of women in the sex trade in nineteenth-century Montreal, illustrating that these women were much more than the sum of their work.

Book Review: In The Larder of The Wise, M. Anne Wyness, a member of the Vancouver Historical Society, takes readers through the life and times of James Inglis Reid, a Scottish immigrant who came to Canada in 1906 to seek his fame and fortune in the grocery trade.