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Cash but Don’t Carry

A weighty 1950s-era cash register was used at a Northern store.

Ships of Misfortune

A ‘rare and extraordinary’ illness ravaged the crew of Jens Munk’s 1619 voyage in search of the Northwest Passage.

Making the Carry

Book Review: This book chronicles the lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater, a legendary Indigenous couple, at the turn of the 20th century.

Confederation or Bust

Was P.E.I. railroaded into joining Canada? 

In Her Words

Book review: The aim of this volume, part essay and part original writings, is to give the latter her voice back.

Black History

One of our most popular issues, this issue features some amazing stories and examples of the ways Black Canadians built and shaped this country.

Crooked Knives

Crooked knife blades were some of the earliest trade goods brought to North America from Europe by the Hudson’s Bay Company.


Cree Moccasin

Hudson’s Bay Company employee George Simpson McTavish Jr., the son of a Scottish fur trader, brought back a pair of moccasins from Fort Churchill around 1887.


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Scenes from "Hudson’s Bay Company" — The Movie

An historical film from Hollywood's golden age — about fur trading?