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In post-Second World War Canada, economic growth made automobiles more affordable, and romance for the open road flourished.

Get an inside look at putting together the artwork for Canada’s History magazine.

Fifty years ago Kenojuak Ashevak’s The Enchanted Owl was reproduced by Canada Post on a six-cent stamp commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Northwest Territories.

The most powerful encounters with history often begin with a single story.

Portia May White became an international singing sensation in the 1940s but her career was short-lived due to management difficulties and ill health. Although she never made a commercial recording, some of her practice sessions were recorded backstage. In this video, White performs her signature song, “Think on Me.”

A Depression-era Quebec songstress elevated spirits with her silk finery and joyful tunes.

A deathbed memoir captured the early history of New France.

The shrill call of industrialization rang out across nineteenth-century Quebec.

A jaunty head covering became the symbol of a persecuted people.

Multidisciplinary scholar, author, and artist, Dr. Afua Cooper is a fellow at the Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. She is the Principal Investigator for A Black People’s History of Canada project housed at Dalhousie University where she teaches and holds a Killam Research Chair.