This free magazine is aimed for students in grades 5–12. Through an allegorical graphic novel-style comic, it explores what it means to have guests arrive at your doorstep, a home taken away, and how we can still find ways to live well together.
Nominations for the Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching are accepted all year round.
Canada’s History’s readers share their stories of pets from the past.
What’s the fascination with celebrity genealogy, anyway?
Lead shots for firearms were cast in this double-sided mould.
A century of storytelling, supporting storytellers, every child matters, making history fun for kids.
For nearly 23 years of research (1992-2015), the Gwich’in Tribal Council Department of Cultural Heritage (formerly Gwich’in Social & Cultural Institute) has worked with more than seventy-four Gwich'in Elders and traditional land users to document place names and create an inventory of heritage sites in the Gwich'in Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories and Yukon.
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and to learn about the plight of Jewish children during the Holocaust, Dawn Martens guided her grades 4 to 6 students on an interdisciplinary project to study and present Hans Krása’s opera, Brundibár.
Created through a partnership between the Western Development Museum, Spirit Wrestler Productions, and the University of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Doukhobor Living Book Project documented through five multimedia outputs the history, culture, and religious beliefs of Saskatchewan’s Independent Doukhobors.
Celebrating the very best in Canadian achievements in the field of history and heritage.
Open Book: The Diary of Dukesang Wong is described as “the only known first-person account by a Chinese worker on the construction of the CPR.”
Our special advertising section includes the latest history titles along with other new and recent books from Canadian publishers
Book Review: It’s hard to think of a building that would have more or better tales to tell than Pier 21 in Halifax.
With 5 uniquely curated newsletters to choose from, we have something for everyone.
In this lesson, students will use role play to learn about the experiences of Black sleeping car porters on the job.
This lesson examines the viewpoints on the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada – immediate abolition, gradual abolition, or no abolition.
Forts. Tipis. Maple syrup. Birch bark canoes. Log cabins. Wagons. (And yes, magazines.) Trees are a big part of the story of Canada.
This lesson examines the life and art of Max Stern, touching upon the themes of the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the resettlement of Jewish immigrants in Canada following the Second World War.