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The Write Stuff

From public-relations experts to romance novelists and news reporters, the people who helmed The Beaver left their marks on the magazine.


Montreal Maroons: Hockey's High Rollers

Bankrolled by wealthy anglophone stockbrokers, the Montreal Maroons were destined to crash.


Lettuce & Labrador

The terrain is often forbidding and the climate harsh, but that hasn't discouraged some resourceful souls over the centuries from coaxing life out of Labrador's unyielding soil.


The Big Chill

Two centuries ago, much of the world was left in the cold during what became known as the Year Without a Summer. By Alan MacEachern


Reluctant Union

Sixty years after joining Canada, the Rock is no longer in a hard place.


Sorcery in New France

When things went wrong in seventeenth-century Quebec, authorities were not above blaming black magic.


Award-winning History Books

Reading List: From a northern city to a writer’s backyard — Canadian history books that have been recognized in 2017 and early 2018.


The past is now digital

Q&A: Historians grapple with the scale and scope of the online world.


Speaking for his compatriots

Open Book: The Diary of Dukesang Wong is described as “the only known first-person account by a Chinese worker on the construction of the CPR.”


Descending to the Past

A unique archaeological site beneath Quebec City’s Dufferin Terrace highlights centuries of changing occupation and uses.