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Two centuries ago, much of the world was left in the cold during what became known as the Year Without a Summer. By Alan MacEachern

Open Book: Sports historian M. Ann Hall shows that, even in the Victorian era, women participated in bicycle racing.

Reading List: A selection of new and recent Canadian labour-history books.

Q&A: An early French trader valued life far from European culture.

An extraordinary botanist and revolutionary intellectual, Brother Marie-Victorin — the David Suzuki of his day — changed the face of Quebec’s scientific community.

Educator Kathryn Whitfield uses primary sources to make the link between past and present for her Grade 10 students.

The two young British dandies seemed wildly out of place in the Columbia District of 1845. Seemingly on holiday, they were in fact preparing for war.

We should remember past pandemics not just for their own sakes, but to ward off the complacency that can leave our communities vulnerable to, and ravaged by, future epidemics.