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Confederation Derailed

You can’t call Canada a nation anymore. How did this happen?


Exploring Hard Histories

Online event shares strategies for tackling difficult histories.


Joining the Jet Age

The Avro Jetliner first flew on August 10, 1949, becoming the first passenger jet to fly in North America and only the second in the world, just two weeks after the British de Havilland Comet.


Nan Sdins

Remnants of Haida village reveal a rich and flamboyant society.


Montreal Chronicles: Come Aboard!

Joanne Burgess, professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal, highlights key moments in the history of Montreal’s port.


Military Alliance Wampum

A beaded collar secured the relationship between British and Wendat nations.


David Watkins

David Watkins believes that studying history is a key to self–determination. In his Canadian–African studies course students use the study of Canadian history to focus on their cultures' contributions to the multicultural fabric of Canada.


Sin City

Nelle Oosterom investigates the historic underbelly of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside.


Black Loyalists

Book Review: In Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities, historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead offers a finely crafted and carefully researched glimpse into the lives of slaves who fled the fledgling United States as Britain’s last stronghold, in New York, began to crumble.


Top 10 National Historic Sites

Imagine planning a summer-long road trip that would take in ten of Canada’s National Historic Sites. Which ones would you choose?