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Vancouver: Hippie City, Heroin City

From Vancouver’s nineteenth-century opium dens, to the 1970s hashish trade through Montreal’s French Connection, drug use and abuse has created subcultures with their own personalities and rituals. 

The Language of Métis Folk Houses

A distinctive people, a distinctive language. Is it any wonder the Métis also built distinctive homes?


Once They Were Hats

Book Review: Frances Backhouse has blended natural history, anthropology, science, and adventure into a compelling account of our national symbol. In Once They Were Hats, she sketches the role of beavers within First Peoples’ cultures, and she discusses the beaver’s importance as a keystone species.


Marie–Anne

Book Review: Siggins’ newest book is far from just a sober account of a pioneer life — it bursts with memorable, sometimes humorous, anecdotes.


Colourful Northern History

Huge new murals add to the belugas, polar bears, and aurora borealis seen in and around Churchill, Manitoba.


Inside the Display Case

Guest editor Magda Fahrni reflects on the importance of preserving, conserving, restoring, and showcasing the objects that have marked our past.


Transcription of the video Origins

Nicole O’Bomsawin, of the Abenaki First Nation, shares some of the history of the First Nations that have been established in the Montreal area for centuries.

The Numbered Treaties

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


HBC History Has a Hawaiian Chapter

The Hudson's Bay Company is usually associated with chilly northern outposts on the Bay. But there was one glaring tropical exception.


Christmas at Moose Factory

Doug Sinclair and Eduard Buckman, the film crew for Fur Country, struggle with the terrain, which delays their arrival in Moose Factory until Christmas afternoon.