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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.

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

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.

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

John Rae is not as well known as some of the other famous names of northern exploration — people like Sir John Franklin, for instance. But Ken McGoogan argues that Rae deserves greater recognition than he has received to date because of what he accomplished.

Book Review: Ken Mather explores the history of the Okanagan Trail through the different groups that used it.

See what’s available in the June-July 2020 issue of Canada’s History magazine.

A profile of a woman from a family of travelling performers.

A look at the titans of industry and commerce that helped create Canada.