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Indigenous authors among Canadian-history writers receiving regional, national and international honours.

Other Canadian history books receive multiple 2020 award nominations.

This lesson examines the various viewpoints and perspectives of the participants in the Confederation debates, including the voices of women, Indigenous peoples and other groups left out of the process.

Canada had no place for the feeble-minded — at least according to the gospel of eugenics.

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.

In 1929, Canada’s Mary Pickford won the Academy Award for best actress in a motion picture. Along with fellow Canadian Mack Sennett, she helped forge the character of Hollywood in the silent era.

When a delegation of four Indigenous chiefs arrived in England three hundred years ago, they created quite a stir.