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Sir John A. Macdonald has been caricatured as a drunkard and a crook. But without him there would be no Canada.

Lawrence Hill tells the story of the Book of Negroes, the original book that inspired his best-selling book and the popular mini-series.

In the years that James Douglas was director of the Beauport Asylum, the treatment of the mentally ill was a model for its time: starting with the notion that they were people too.

Having barely survived the trenches of World War I, returning Canadian soldiers — and the public at large — were greeted with a horror of a different ilk: the Spanish Flu. Weapons were no defence.

How the legend of the dashing British First World War hero went through a test run in Toronto.

The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike remains an unparalleled moment of solidarity among Canadian workers. 

George Feyer was at one time Canada’s most celebrated cartoonist. But fame could not erase his dark side.

Explore these five hidden heritage gems from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, and a bonus one from Nova Scotia.