Six great tips to start thinking historically.
Why a thirteenth-century piece of parchment endorsed by an English king who was under threat of death has meaning for Canadians today.
How a mob of men from a “respectable class” almost smothered an infant democracy.
Pirate Maria Lindsey Cobham sent waves of fear through sailors in 1700s Canada.
Jocelyn Létourneau presents on history and collective memory at the first Canada’s History Forum in 2007.
One of the few women to have been accorded a place in the history of the Canadian North is Thanadelthur, more widely known as the Slave Woman.
For the RCMP after the war, communists were the subversives. But when dissent flowered in the 1960s, the Mounties were flummoxed.
Nancy Payne, editor of Kayak, speaks with Joseph Trivers, Music Acquisitions Librarian, about a song that at one time served as Canada’s unofficial national anthem, and a song from a Norwegian play sung by a celebrated Canadian soprano.
The summer and fall of 1886 saw a flurry of ‘loyal’ Plains Indigenous leaders pay visits to Central Canada.
