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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.


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Terms & Conditions for using Canada's History websites.

Looking for Mrs. Armstrong

Who was that impassioned woman at the heart of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike? And why did her memory become lost to time? Filmmaker Paula Kelly set out to bring Helen Armstrong back from the margins of history and discovered in her journey a legacy of humanism that has been passed down through the generations.


Canada's Coldest Day

In 1947 at Snag in the Yukon, it was so cold that Gordon Toole's breath turned to powder and fell to the ground.