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Book Review: The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness is a compelling account of society’s assumptions about disability and the assertion of deaf rights.

Book review: Allyson D. Stevenson is the chair of Métis studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and the book Intimate Integration is based on her 2015 doctoral dissertation. While this is a scholarly work, it is nevertheless very readable and contains a rich trove of history documenting Indigenous and Métis child welfare in Saskatchewan during the last half of the twentieth century.

Book Review: Of the 2,800 Canadian nurses who served during the First World War, very few kept a record of their wartime experience. Thus, Ruth Loggie’s war diary is a treasure.

Book Review: Military historian Terry Copp, along with researcher Alexander Maavara, has drawn upon the city’s eight major newspapers as a means to understand how Montreal experienced the war.

Book Review: It may not be immediately evident from the title, but this book feels current. The social-justice issues raised a century ago by visionary reformer Alfred Fitzpatrick have evolved, yet they’re still alive today. The fundraising challenges, personality conflicts, and power struggles of the past would be familiar to contemporary social activists.

What compels people to explore genealogy? Some say they’re driven by ego — but the real reasons are far more complicated.

Who created The Beaver’s immense photographic collection?

This lesson you will discuss with your students: How war has shaped Canada and its citizens; the influences of patriotism, propaganda and music on choices Canadians made during war.

Student will research significant figures in Manitoba's (or another Province / Territory) history and the impact these figures had/have on their lives today.

This lesson is part of the Expo 67 Unit Plan. This lesson plan can be used as a hook to get students exploring the idea of World Fairs/Expos in history to help understand the significance of hosting such an event in Canada.