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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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