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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.

When things went wrong in seventeenth-century Quebec, authorities were not above blaming black magic.

When a delegation of four Indigenous chiefs arrived in England three hundred years ago, they created quite a stir.

Their contributions were often overlooked in official histories, but Indigenous men and women played crucial roles in the success of the fur trade.

Nobody knows why the large boulders of Melville Peninsula stand upon small stones, nor who placed them there.

Book Review: If anyone can take the topic of colonial settlement on the prairies and make it sing, it’s Carter. A historian in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, her focus is the intersection of gendered colonial-Indigenous relations on the prairies. With Imperial Plots, Carter has again proven her talents.

Reading List: While Canada’s History magazine doesn’t review historical fiction, we know that many of our readers are devotees of the genre, and so from time to time we compile a list of recently published Canadian titles.

An orphan, a war, and the visitor who returned to Canada with my grandfather.

Book Review: Search for the Unknown explores the many accounts by Canadians of UFO sightings but also attempts to unpack the meaning behind these reports. Working from thousands of pages of archival documents drawn from multiple government departments, author Matthew Hayes searches for patterns in the 4,500 individual cases submitted by Canadians or investigated by the RCMP.