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From the archives: In 1920s Winnipeg, a groundbreaking fashion show introduces shoppers to the latest trends in lingerie style.

Nellie McClung and a group of devoted suffragists stage their mock parliament to make a point about women’s equality.

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.

New musical explores the what-ifs that surround the life of Canada’s fourth prime minister.

This lesson examines the various viewpoints and perspectives of the participants in the Confederation debates, including the voices of women, Indigenous peoples and other groups left out of the process.

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

Ruined maids and fallen women: Back in the days when men were men and women were property, a court might try a cad. Particularly if dad was mad.

Book Review: While Polar Winds recounts extraordinary tales of adventure, tragedy, and intrigue, it’s also a history of everyday life in the North. Readers will find themselves interested to learn about the complex impact aviation had on communication, health care, education, and the economy for Canada’s northern residents.

Learn how propaganda was used to sway public opinion during the First World War.

Book Review: What seemed like a golden opportunity for ranchers in the 1880s soured when the chinook winds failed to arrive in the winters of 1886–87 and 1906–7.