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History tidbits to get you through the holidays!

Book Review: In The Ghost Orchard: The Hidden History of the Apple in North America Helen Humphreys is inspired by the taste of wild apples found outside a log cabin near her home in Kingston, Ontario, to seek their largely unknown origins in terms of Indigenous peoples, women, and artists.

See what’s available in the October-November 2021 issue of Canada’s History.

In this lesson students explore the role of the Canadian Patriotic Fund during the First World War.

What is a moment or who is a person from Canadian history that you think more people should know about?

In this lesson, students will be introduced to Thanadelthur, an Indigenous woman known for her bravery, leadership, and forethought.

Cynthia Bettio’s students undertook a year-long project to investigate Canadian history from 1914 to the present through the lens of traditionally underrepresented groups, including Indigenous people, racialized Canadians, and women.

Though it may seem the sex manual found its beginning in Alex Comfort’s 1974 bestseller The Joy of Sex, sex guides have had a long, although often covert, publishing history.

Book Review: Just Watch Us examines RCMP surveillance of the “second wave” feminist movement in Canada over a fifteen-year period beginning in the late 1960s.

From a network of trading posts to an international retail icon, HBC underwent a remarkable transformation in the twentieth century.