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In this podcast series, Canada’s History spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Britain’s longest-reigning monarch kept calm and carried on through seventy years of personal and political turmoil.

When prospectors stampeded into the Klondike, Chief Isaac guided the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people through a time of turmoil.

A city-bred son-in-law reflects on the passing of a rural way of life.

Six great tips to start thinking historically. 

Few Canadians realize that much of our parks system was built with forced labour — prisoners of war, enemy aliens, conscientious objectors, and an army of jobless men.

Carrying mail by air in the North began as a series of private ventures. The Dominion Government did not take part until 1927.

In the early days of moviemaking, two companies competed to tell the story of the North. Nanook of the North soared to enduring fame; no one remembers the other film.

The Grey Cup is over a century old, but the 1962 title tilt stands out as the greatest game no one saw.

From the Orient to New York via Vancouver, precious silk could only be transported one way — by rail. For Canadian railways, every minute counted.