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Nine innings of stories you’ve probably never heard about baseball in Canada. 

Seventy-five years after the Second World War, the Dutch are determined to keep alive the legacy of their Canadian liberators.

In the Great War, the Canadian state found itself fighting two fronts. And the historical irony is striking: while thousands of working-class men and women were marched off to Europe, ostensibly to defend the rights and freedoms of democracy against tyranny, such highly prized ideals were routinely—and often severely—violated at home.

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

The Mohawk of Kahnawake were renowned for their skill and agility when it came to high-steel construction. But in 1907, they were the hardest hit when the Quebec Bridge collapsed.

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

Check out the program for night one of the 2020 Canada’s History Forum “Witness to History” on November 26, 2020.

Reading List: A selection of recent books on military history.

LAC maintains an extensive collection, particularly in terms of the variety of material that has accumulated through the “total archives” approach.

While Canadians often pride themselves on their historical support of the more progressive anti-slavery Union, British support for the North was never a given.