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Database recognizes veterans named on school memorials.

Viola Desmond didn't set out to be a civil rights leader. But in 1946 when she was removed from a theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, she fought back in court.

Project seeks to identify Inuit people photographed in the early to mid-twentieth century.

When this underwear becomes outerwear it bridges class and gender.

A podcast featuring figure skater Barbara Ann Scott, the darling of the 1948 Moritz Olympics. Scott passed away in 2012.

Hudson’s Bay Company employee George Simpson McTavish Jr., the son of a Scottish fur trader, brought back a pair of moccasins from Fort Churchill around 1887.

Archivist Bronwen Quarry shares story of Gertrude Perrin and the importance of private records within the Hudson's Bay Company Archives.

A cadre of historians, artists and activists champion social justice via comic books. In 2013, they published a free comic on Canada’s early labour movement.

As Union and Confederate armies battled in the United States, Canadians got involved on both sides of the conflict.

This nineteenth-century engraved seal was used to secure the contents of a letter as well as to identify the sender.