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Fifty years ago Kenojuak Ashevak’s The Enchanted Owl was reproduced by Canada Post on a six-cent stamp commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Northwest Territories.

The most powerful encounters with history often begin with a single story.

Portia May White became an international singing sensation in the 1940s but her career was short-lived due to management difficulties and ill health. Although she never made a commercial recording, some of her practice sessions were recorded backstage. In this video, White performs her signature song, “Think on Me.”

A Depression-era Quebec songstress elevated spirits with her silk finery and joyful tunes.

A deathbed memoir captured the early history of New France.

The shrill call of industrialization rang out across nineteenth-century Quebec.

A jaunty head covering became the symbol of a persecuted people.

Multidisciplinary scholar, author, and artist, Dr. Afua Cooper is a fellow at the Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. She is the Principal Investigator for A Black People’s History of Canada project housed at Dalhousie University where she teaches and holds a Killam Research Chair.

A look back at select moments from British Columbia’s history.