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Connecting Canadians through Projet Portage

The Molson Foundation’s bold initiative shares French-Canadian history with new audiences.


Montréal Capital City

Book Review:  The book Montréal Capital City leads to an ironic realization: If anglophone Montrealers hadn’t destroyed a great building that had been largely their own creation, Montreal might still be the nation’s capital today — and our political evolution would look very different indeed.


Alvira Lockwood

Raised in the studio


Hannah Maynard

Creative experimentalist


Rivers Run Through Us

Book Review: In Rivers Run Through Us, Taylor explores the geographical histories of ten major North American rivers — including the Yukon, Columbia, Fraser, Mackenzie, and St. Lawrence in Canada — to demonstrate how they influenced human history in North America.


Sitting On Fire

In 1972, Canada took in thousands of Ugandan Asians who were stripped of their citizenship and given only ninety days to leave their homeland.


The Nature of Things

As Canada urbanized, more and more people saw camping as a way to reconnect with the wilderness.


First Nations Diary: Documenting Daily Life

Students learn how Indigenous peoples were impacted by settlement and colonization.


The War of 1812 Documentary

PBS's two-hour documentary, The War of 1812, uses stunning re-enactments, evocative animation, and the incisive commentary of key experts to reveal little-known sides of an important war.


A World We Have Lost

Book Review: The cycle of life on the Canadian prairies has always revolved around the land. From Aboriginal reliance on the bison, to potash in the modern economy, it always goes back to the land. In A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905, noted historian Bill Waiser reveals a sweeping panorama of the archaeology and Indigenous life of the region and the factors that played into its development.