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Controlling Customs

A young, beautiful, and virginal bride and groom paired in eternal troth is the usual stuff of love’s sweet dream. But a wakeful world knows better. Many lovers through history have stubbornly resisted social standards.


Haute Cuisine in New France

A Christmas dinner in Montreal, 1665


Reframing the Past

A trove of family photos offers a window on the experience of prairie settlers. 


June-July 2018

See what’s available in the June-July 2018 issue of Canada’s History magazine.


Unacquainted with Fear

How Eileen Vollick became the first Canadian woman to earn a pilot's licence.


Freethinker

Book Review: Those who have been overshadowed — the intellectual predecessors to the Quiet Revolution — include Éva Circé-Côté, the subject of Lévesque’s 2010 book that has now been translated into English.


October-November 2019

See what’s available in the October-November 2019 issue of Canada’s History magazine.


Seeking the Fabled City

Book Review: In his latest book, Seeking the Fabled City, Allan Levine writes about Jews in the military in
both world wars (they enlisted in high numbers), in businesses, in the professions, and in public welfare bodies.


Live at the Cellar

Book Review: The way Marian Jago sets the stage to explain how and why a jazz venue emerged at this specific time in Vancouver provides a fascinating window into Canadian history.


Engaged with the past

Reading List: Recent creative writing about Canadian history