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Growth of a Nation: Trading Cards

In this activity students create a package of 10 Canadian History Trading cards reflecting what they have learned and studied as their course progressed over the term.


The Battlefield Landscape of the First World War

In this lesson students explore several seminal Canadian First World War battles with an emphasis on the experiences of soldiers in the trenches.


2022 Recipient of the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research

Drawing on a wide range of written and oral archives, this year’s recipient examined the physical, political, and cultural making of the Canada-US border from the 1770s to the early twentieth century in beautiful and compelling prose.


Ties that Bind

Recalling my family’s railway history. 


Hope and Heartbreak

Touring Newfoundland’s haunting Bonavista Peninsula.


The Wake

Book Review: Fisherman Patrick Rennie and two of his sons were on high ground when three giant waves battered their Newfoundland outport home.


Vikings on a Prairie Ocean

Manitoban Glenn Sigurdson brings the history of New Iceland to life in his memoir about growing up along Lake Winnipeg.


Royal NF Regiment in the War of 1812 Transcript

Members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment were one of the most versatile groups of the entire war, on either side of the border. And yet, they were never given the battle honours that they should have had. Episode 12 of the War of 1812 Video Field Guide.

John McCrae’s War

How a First World War Canadian army doctor came to write a poem that, a hundred years later, continues to stir the hearts of people around the world.


War Efforts

A Second World War-era photo illustrates Canada’s determination to defeat Nazis.