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Transcription Viola Desmond: Unlikely Crusader

Video transcript: Viola Desmond didn't set out to be a civil rights leader. But in 1946 when she was removed from a theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, she fought back in court.

Dust and Depression Transcript

Prairie families in the 1930s watch their farms — and hopes — blow away while they wait for rain.

2018 Summer Reading Guide

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For Better, For Worse

Fiction Feature: Lynn Johnston is one of the world’s best-known cartoonists. This story is based on facts, but it’s a fictional version of how we imagine Canada’s most famous comic strip might have got its start.


The Trapper

From the archives: A photo essay from 1943 follows the story of Isaiah Clark, a Cree trapper, as he prepares to head into the wilderness in search of valuable furs.


Taking a Stand

Bring labour history into your classroom with these lesson plans and activities.


Spying Goes to College

For the RCMP after the war, communists were the subversives. But when dissent flowered in the 1960s, the Mounties were flummoxed.


Creature Comforters

We salute some famous — and some not-so-famous — animals from Canada’s past.


Behind the Summit Series

Open Book: In Ice War Diplomat: Hockey Meets Cold War Politics at the 1972 Summit Series, Gary J. Smith offers behind-the-scenes stories about meetings that allowed the series to happen as well as the often-extraordinary efforts that were needed to sustain it.


Crokinole

The mysterious origins and enduring popularity of Canada’s favourite parlour game.