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From flimsy skin boats, to graceful canoes, to powerful steamboats, vessels of one kind or another have carried people over the waterways of Canada's West.

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

Doug Sinclair and Eduard Buckman, the film crew for Fur Country, struggle with the terrain, which delays their arrival in Moose Factory until Christmas afternoon.

Canada’s Ned Hanlan stayed one stroke ahead of controversy to become the world’s fastest man on water.

In 1947 at Snag in the Yukon, it was so cold that Gordon Toole's breath turned to powder and fell to the ground.

The fever of the Klondike gold rush has long passed. But the legacy of those wild-eyed fortune seekers still lives large in the land of the midnight sun.

Fiction Feature: There’s no place quite like Newfoundland’s Port Union.

In this activity, students will learn about Canadians’ divided opinion on whether Indochinese refugees should have relocated to Canada.

Book Review: Janis Thiessen’s book Snacks: A Canadian Food History is an excellent oral history that delves into the nostalgic and wonderful world of favourite Canadian brands.

This lesson is an experiential approach to Indigenous people’s history.