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The bow loom can be used to produce a variety of woven materials and is a technology that has been used by many cultures.

This piano cover, decorated with Métis beadwork, was made in 1878 at what is now Fort Qu’appelle, Saskatchewan.

The 1968 premier of Michel Tremblay’s play riled critics and enthralled audiences.

A Quebec feminist icon wrote her memoirs on this machine.

Despite her tragic murder, Mi’kmaq activist Annie Mae Aquash left a spiritual legacy that refuses to die.

Canadians played crucial roles in the Battle of the Atlantic.

The groundbreaking musical that tells the story of the arrival of the filles du roi through the eyes of two Mohawk siblings is being made into a film.

When sixty Roma set up camp on an extension of George Street in Peterborough, Ontario, in the early summer of 1909, they caused a sensation.

In 1929, the British Privy Council ruled that Canadian women were persons under the law. What sparked this victory for women’s rights was the trial of a forgotten Calgary prostitute twelve years earlier.

There are many ways to view the armed conflict of 1885. Elizabeth McLean’s account of her experience as a captive of the Cree is surprisingly enlightened for its time.