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Book Review: Hamilton writer, historian, and arts curator Andrew Hunter has written a historical account of the life and times of Sophia Burthen Pooley, a Black enslaved Upper Canadian woman.

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.

One of the first officers of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police, Francis Dickens, son of novelist Charles Dickens, was noted for his famous parentage, if not much else.

Flying Officer Frank Rowan was presumed dead in 1945. Germany's surrender gave him a second chance at life.

Do you know who the nineteen Canadian Nobel Laureates are?

In 1924, a charismatic Doukhobor leader died in a spectacular railway explosion. His death remains unsolved.

Ending a marriage was difficult in Catholic Quebec, but Albert Guay found a way.

According to meteorologists, the storm that hit the city was a tornado. In Regina, it has always been popularly known as “the cyclone.”

Book Review: James Daschuk’s much-heralded Clearing the Plains is an intricate and well-crafted examination of the historical role of food and disease in the life of First Nations of Western Canada. In a strong first chapter, Daschuk dispenses notions that indigenous sickness and starvation were “new” while gesturing to food security and political autonomy as reasons why these communities flourished for centuries before European contact.