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Made in Canada: We Are What We Eat

Seven creative and innovative contributions Canadians have made in the culinary world.


Songs For Little People & My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair

An early recording of popular children’s songs, and a Scottish folk song with an arrangement by Joseph Haydn, performed by a beloved Canadian singer.


David A. Robertson Transcript

David A. Robertson Transcript

Think on Me

In the 1940s contralto Portia May White was celebrated as Canada’s singing sensation.


Chiefs Journey

The summer and fall of 1886 saw a flurry of ‘loyal’ Plains Indigenous leaders pay visits to Central Canada.


Bonds of Empire

India and Canada share the marks of Europe’s colonial past.


Shifting Riel-ity: The 1885 North-West Rebellion

Was it a bang-up job or a bungle? A fresh look at the response to the 1885 North-West Rebellion.


Dreams in the Dust: The Story of Tom Sukanen

As an ocean-going vessel took shape on a Saskatchewan farm during the Great Depression, it was clear that its builder was either a genius or a madman.


Murder in Hastings County

When a Catholic couple was charged with killing a Protestant neighbour in Canada West, it became a lightning rod for partisan passions.


The Doctor and the Madmen

In the years that James Douglas was director of the Beauport Asylum, the treatment of the mentally ill was a model for its time: starting with the notion that they were people too.