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Growing Their Own

Tobacco in Alberta? The nomadic Blackfoot people cultivated it in this unlikely place long before European contact. Curiously, the beaver played a role.


The Use of Media in Exploring Afro Indigenous Ancestry

This lesson will ask students to use creative, academic, and observational skills to define terms which are important to understanding Afro Indigenous ancestry and to reflect on how media has been used over time to express important ideas about justice and ethnicity.


If the Shoes Fit

Exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum explores history of Indigenous Arctic footwear.


The First Labour Day

For many, Labour Day signals the end of summer. But what evolved into just another long weekend began as a massive working class demonstration in the streets of Toronto.


A Day for Laurier

Few Canadians may be aware of it, but Laurier, like Sir John A. Macdonald, has a special day named after him.  


For Whom the Post Clangs

Unlucky Canucks see Cup dreams dashed off the iron.


Game-changer

The match that defined the Ottawa Senators and its long-serving captain.


The PS Royal William of Quebec

Book Review: The nineteenth century saw a fundamental change from sail to steam powered ships. The Royal William was one of these new steam powered ships and proved to be a reliable vessel, but it encountered a few problems during its Canadian tenure.


Ville-Marie: The Cradle of Montreal Transcript

Ville-Marie: The Cradle of Montreal Transcript