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Other Canadian history books receive multiple 2020 award nominations.

How the Names and Knowledge Initiative is helping to reveal Indigenous peoples, places, and understandings in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives.

Book Review: Distorted Descent is a scathing critique of white people claiming “métis” status for personal gain.

Book Review: Invisible Generations is a carefully written book anchored in the author’s friendship with a mixed-race schoolteacher.

Fiction feature: Young boys relive a deadly battle about furs and food.

Book Review: The academic essays in The Politics of the Canoe look at canoe culture from a mostly Indigenous perspective.

Book Review: Following the Good River is a meander through a collection of stories, time periods, events, and voices. The best parts are told in Paul’s own, natural storytelling voice.

Should ordinary objects be preserved?

Today a picturesque waterfront town, Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Royal was the site of repeated battles between French and British forces beginning more than four hundred years ago.

We asked five historians to come up with who they thought was Canada’s greatest explorer. Some of their picks were expected, some were not.