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Western Canada’s Treaties were intended to provide frameworks for respectful coexistence.

Book Review: Let us stipulate that Conrad Black is a polarizing figure. Many Canadians disliked his way of doing business and his seemingly haughty view regarding his own country. Now, let us put that aside and consider on its merits his rather immodest, thousand-plus-pages Rise to Greatness.

Canada's railways have always held a special place in our history and in our hearts.

Book Review: Heaman is based at McGill University and begins her book with wry comments on how tax history must seem “the most boring work imaginable.”

Reading List: Highlights from recently self-published Canadian-history books.

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.

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. 

Newfoundland has had a tumultuous political history. Perhaps no more dramatic and significant were the riots of 1861.