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Doug Sinclair and Eduard Buckman, the film crew for Fur Country, struggle with the terrain, which delays their arrival in Moose Factory until Christmas afternoon.

In the early days of moviemaking, two companies competed to tell the story of the North. Nanook of the North soared to enduring fame; no one remembers the other film.

War, pestilence, and fire were the constant enemies of the young Augustinian nurses. But they persevered. Today the Hôtel-Dieu de Quebec stands testimony to their faith and charity.

The boat was adrift. The crew was missing. But the blood and the bullet holes told a tale.

The old buildings of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have a checkered past. Is their shady heritage worth saving?

One of the few women to have been accorded a place in the history of the Canadian North is Thanadelthur, more widely known as the Slave Woman.

For the RCMP after the war, communists were the subversives. But when dissent flowered in the 1960s, the Mounties were flummoxed.

It was a dilemma, medical students needed cadavers for dissection. But procuring cadavers was illegal. In nineteenth-century Montreal there was only one solution. And it was ghoulish. 

Western Canada’s Treaties were intended to provide frameworks for respectful coexistence.

Indigenous title to land in the Ottawa Valley is an issue that is yet to be resolved.