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A weighty 1950s-era cash register was used at a Northern store.

A ‘rare and extraordinary’ illness ravaged the crew of Jens Munk’s 1619 voyage in search of the Northwest Passage.

Book Review: This book chronicles the lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater, a legendary Indigenous couple, at the turn of the 20th century.

Was P.E.I. railroaded into joining Canada? 

Book review: The aim of this volume, part essay and part original writings, is to give the matriarch her voice back.

One of our most popular issues, this issue features some amazing stories and examples of the ways Black Canadians built and shaped this country.

From the Archives: The September 1935 issue of The Beaver gave readers a tour of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur-grading and cold-storage operations in London, England.

This Iglulik Inuit-made qulittuq (man’s parka) was produced in the early twentieth-century from thick caribou skins to withstand the cold winters.

Items including moccasins and a book that were used by Philip de Carteret when he worked as a trapper and fur trader for Revillon Frères and the Hudson’s Bay Company between 1929 and 1934 in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec are profiled. 

An ulu with a slate cutting edge might have been used to scrape animal skins, to chop meat, and to make clothing.