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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.

In a perfect world, the thirty women on this list would be household names. But for too long history textbooks have focused on great men, to the exclusion of all others.

Was Jack the Ripper a McGill University graduate?

India and Canada share the marks of Europe’s colonial past.

Book Review: Shawn Smallman’s Dangerous Spirits is a fascinating look at the stories of the Windigo heard by early missionaries, fur traders, colonial officials, and legal authorities, and at those told by Indigenous elders.

These saddles were made by women, and Métis women have been credited with exceptional expertise in their creation.

This lock and key were used to secure the powder magazine at York Factory around 1840. 

A brass token served to seal alliances and to propagate the faith.

A trade magnet for coastal First Nations in the mid-19th century, Victoria’s waterfront yields an unexpected trove of artifacts from many peoples.