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In this lesson students will research immigrant experiences in early Canada and then compare their “Terra” experiences to those of real life immigrants.

Spy or refugee? How Gerda Munsinger got caught up in Canada’s first national political sex scandal.

Book Review: Historian Warren Elofson compares late nineteenth-century cattle frontiers in Western Canada and northern Australia. There are many physical similarities between the regions, but Elofson goes beyond discussions of the environment to produce a social history including the raucous culture that develops when there is gender imbalance.

Book Review: In Cold Case Vancouver, Eve Lazarus examines eighteen of the city’s unsolved murders. Lazarus combed archives, newspapers, and obituaries as well as the memories of families, victims’ friends, and retired police detectives. Her book is an excellent read for history and mystery buffs alike.

Visitors to Ontario always have a ball at the baseball hall of fame.

Watch now: in this webinar, Samantha Cutrara discusses using primary sources as a form of social justice and the role of archives, museums, and community collections in visualizing different pasts and imagining different futures.

Viking legends proven true at this long-buried settlement.

Elizabeth has lived longer than any other British monarch, and her reign is the longest in Commonwealth history.

Newcomers that don’t see themselves in the existing Canadian narrative can use oral history to preserve their memories.

For a comprehensive look at how people met the challenges of communicable disease before the age of modern medicine, watch this three-part video series.