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Book Review: Beauty pageants in twentieth- century Canada may have seemed like frivolous entertainment. However, according to the new book Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity, contests searching for the “ideal Canadian girl” also functioned as tools to reinforce gender, race, and class anxieties in a white settler society.

There’s much to ponder before airing family secrets.

In this presentation, Jonathan Vance speaks about the ways Canadians have memorialized the Great War over the past 100 years and provides suggestions for how to commemorate the war moving forward.

In this presentation, Barry Gough discusses the Victoria High School Great War project. 

Watch the recordings from the 2012 Canada’s History Forum.

Watch now: in this webinar Krista McCracken provides a more in-depth Wikipedia editing tutorial for Canadian History with some technical editing basics.

Élisabeth Côté highlights the era of early Montréalers, the French missionaries who came to establish Ville-Marie in 1642. Visible traces of this history remain even today.

In this presentation, Jock Martin and Heather Ragot share how their students went beyond pan-Indigenous narratives to understand the unique experiences and cultures of different Indigenous groups in Canada.

In this video, René Binette, director of Écomusée du fier monde, shines a light on the history of industrial development in Montreal.