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Holding the Fort

A century ago, the federal government protected a fort in Nova Scotia and launched Canada’s national historic sites system.


Wildlife, Land, and People

Book Review: Even with my interest in natural history, I didn’t expect to find this five-hundred-plus-page tome all that engaging, given the dry title. Yet I found myself drawn in to Wetherell’s accessible, sometimes-passionate, always measured writing style.


February-March 2018

See what’s available in the February-March 2018 issue of Canada’s History magazine.


Freethinker

Book Review: Those who have been overshadowed — the intellectual predecessors to the Quiet Revolution — include Éva Circé-Côté, the subject of Lévesque’s 2010 book that has now been translated into English.


June-July 2022

See what’s available in the June-July 2022 issue of Canada’s History.


The Lost Prime Ministers

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.


Transcription for A Peek Under Parliament

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.

Annual Report 2017

Awarding excellence, snapshots of Canada, examining the past and engaging youth.


Remembering Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada

Britain’s longest-reigning monarch kept calm and carried on through seventy years of personal and political turmoil.


The Bank That Went Bust

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.