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In the Great War, the Canadian state found itself fighting two fronts. And the historical irony is striking: while thousands of working-class men and women were marched off to Europe, ostensibly to defend the rights and freedoms of democracy against tyranny, such highly prized ideals were routinely—and often severely—violated at home.

Who owned the guns, the books, the camera, and the rotted tent, found in the wilderness 120 kilometres from Churchill? And why did he never return for them?

As we mark the magazine’s centennial, we reflect on the past, but we also want to share our aspirations for the future of Canada’s History.

A Christmas dinner in Montreal, 1665

See what’s available in the June-July 2017 special collector's issue of Canada’s History magazine.

JoAnn Roe tours Heritage Ghost Town, near Revelstoke, British Columbia, where the spirit of the frontier lives on. 

See what’s available in the August-September 2019 issue of Canada’s History magazine.

Touring the Ottawa River region by bicycle.

Book Review:  In Strangers in the House, Candace Savage writes of her search for her family history and the bigotry that her family experienced in Saskatoon in the early twentieth century. 

An intrepid botanist braved ice and snow to bring his prized specimens home