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Book Review:  According to Jordan B. Goldstein, author of Canada’s Holy Grail: Lord Stanley’s Political Motivation to Donate the Stanley Cup, it was by design. When Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley, Canada’s sixth Governor General, donated the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (later known as the Stanley Cup) in March 1892, he set out to foster Canadian unity and nationalism.

Book Review: Who were the four men who succeeded Sir John A. Macdonald and served as prime minister between 1891 and 1896? Ontario writer Michael Hill gives this forgotten four the star treatment in The Lost Prime Ministers, an enlightening, entertaining, and easy-to-read account.

Book review: The War in the Woods of the 1980s and 1990s pitted the government of British Columbia against the First Nations of Meares Island, B.C., in a battle over Indigenous rights to the land and its resources.

Book Review: At a time when the role of the British monarchy has once again come into question in Canada, Canadian Spy Story offers interesting historical background about a period when a small group of committed Irish nationalists swam against the Loyalist tide and sought to draw Canada into the uprising against British rule.

Manitoban Glenn Sigurdson brings the history of New Iceland to life in his memoir about growing up along Lake Winnipeg.

In this video, Ms. Francine Lelièvre, director at Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex, tells the story of an exceptional archaeological site -- the first Parliament of United Canada.

Members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment were one of the most versatile groups of the entire war, on either side of the border. And yet, they were never given the battle honours that they should have had. Episode 12 of the War of 1812 Video Field Guide.

It stirs our hearts today, but in 1965 when the Maple Leaf became Canada’s flag, some saw it as a betrayal of Canadian values.

In the 1920s, Ottawa took control of the business of banking. It was forced to. A great bank had collapsed and many Canadians were ruined.

If Canadians rarely hear about the International Joint Commission, it may be because this institution has been quiet yet effective in its job of settling potentially explosive cross-border disputes.