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Understanding Canadian History requires both context and a sense of proportion. 

Fiction Feature: It’s Manitoba in 1888. Is it better for French-speaking and English-speaking friends to go to school together, or to have a chance to learn in their own language?

In this guide, educators share how they teach Treaties in the classroom, including advice, online resources, books, and lesson plans.

Sir John A. Macdonald has been caricatured as a drunkard and a crook. But without him there would be no Canada.

One hundred years ago, Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce exposed the horrifying death toll among children in residential schools.

In Newfoundland, Canada Day was never about red-and-white face painting, Pearson’s flag, or bone-rattling rock concerts. It was Memorial Day, focused on morning (and mourning) ceremonies.

The prestigious role of Governor General of Canada dates back nearly 400 years, to the Governor of New France, Samuel de Champlain.

In the late-1800s, few Canadians cared whether crops would grow on the southern prairies. Most believed it was a barren wasteland. But then a drive to settle the Last Best West changed everything.

Every object tells a story.

Elsbeth Heaman wins top prize for academic writing in Canadian history for her book Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867–1917.