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Nelle Oosterom investigates the historic underbelly of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside.

There is more to Calgary than Stampede and cowboys.

Tracking down lost cousins can be a challenge. But it's usually worth the effort.

A “lily among thorns” or a victim of colonialism? Maybe there’s another way to understand Canada’s only Aboriginal saint.

A Canadian soldier was so keen to enlist after the First World War broke out in 1914 that he neglected to tell his sweetheart. Read his letter of explanation.

When Europeans met Inuit in Labrador, home and hearth were reshaped.

Book Review: Siggins’ newest book is far from just a sober account of a pioneer life — it bursts with memorable, sometimes humorous, anecdotes.

Book Review: In Arming and Disarming, Blake Brown undertakes a thorough review of the history of gun control in Canada and explodes the myth that we have never been as gunloving as our American neighbours.

Book Review: In Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities, historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead offers a finely crafted and carefully researched glimpse into the lives of slaves who fled the fledgling United States as Britain’s last stronghold, in New York, began to crumble.

Book Review: The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts helps teachers and students to become active participants in reading and understanding history.