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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.

In this activity, students will analyze a selection of primary documents from the First World War.

Pierre Berton was a journalist, editor, TV personality — but most of all — historian, for transforming Canadian history into chart-topping best sellers.

The 1918 flu epidemic felled nearly as many Canadians as the preceding war.

After 175 years, searchers close in on answers to what actually doomed the tragic 1845 Northwest Passage voyage.

The story of Canada’s volcanic past is written in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

This song by The Kilts is dedicated to young Robert Sidey, a boy with Down’s syndrome who was institutionalized at the Huronia Institution in 1956 at the age of three. He died there of untreated pneumonia in 1961.

Book Review: In her latest book, Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture, Maria Tippett returns to Emily Carr and Bill Reid and considers them alongside six other “cultural producers” with ties to the province she now calls home. Her goal, as explained in the epilogue, is to tell “the story of how British Columbia’s culture was shaped during the twentieth century.”

Chilkat blankets are one of the best examples of the Northwest Coast’s exceptional weaving industry.