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Building Johnny Pov’s Kayak

Archival photos from the 1950s show how an Inuit community came together using skill and sealskins to build a traditional watercraft.

Farmer Fong's Choy-ce

Fiction Feature: When a young Chinese man attends a potlatch thrown by the Musqueam family whose land he farms, he finds love amid the celebrations.

Landscapes of Silence

Book Review: Hugh Brody, a renowned British anthropologist and filmmaker, spent ten years in the 1970s mapping the Canadian Arctic for the federal government. In present-day Nunavut, he learned two Inuktitut dialects, immersed himself in the language, stories, and memories of the people with whom he lived, and learned “that there is a whole other way of hearing and sustaining knowledge.”

Let's Go to the Fair!

Agricultural fairs and exhibitions have played an important role in Canada for nearly two centuries.

Witness Blanket: Bringing Voices of Residential School Survivors to the Classroom

This presentation introduces participants to WitnessBlanket.ca and offers ways for educators to walk alongside their students on their pathways of reconciliation.

Journey to the Heart of the Huron-Wendat Way of Life

This presentation demonstrates how the Huron-Wendat Museum encourages empathy through its mission and values.

Haida Gwaii Earthquake

By the numbers: Canada’s largest earthquake since 1700 occurred seventy-five years ago on August 22, 1949, along the Queen Charlotte Fault off the coast of British Columbia.

2024 Summer Reading Guide

Our special advertising section includes engaging history titles along with other new and recent books from Canadian publishers.

Crosses in the Sky

Book review: The Jesuit missionaries in New France have been variously portrayed as devout Catholics willing to die for their faith or as uncompromising zealots who perpetrated cultural genocide on Indigenous peoples. In Mark Bourrie’s book Crosses in the Sky, Jean de Brébeuf emerges as both of these things.

War of 1812 Video Field Guide

From the Battle of Queenston Heights to the burning of Washington to the little-known role of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, this 11-part series of videos hosted by Tim Compeau brings to life the major events of the conflict.