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A Canadian Nurse in the Great War

Book Review: Of the 2,800 Canadian nurses who served during the First World War, very few kept a record of their wartime experience. Thus, Ruth Loggie’s war diary is a treasure.


The Great Canadian Reindeer Project

The Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie Delta faced desperation. Caribou had dwindled. But Alaskan reindeer held the promise of plenty. And so, in 1929, a few men and a huge herd began the long and arduous trek east. It was more than they bargained for.


Canadian Nobel Laureates

Do you know who the nineteen Canadian Nobel Laureates are?


Great Canadian Women

This special digital issue celebrates some of the amazing women who helped make our country what it is today.


Reflections on a Canadian Battlefields Tour

Stephen Crew, a grade 12 student at St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, reflects on his 2017 visit to First and Second World War sites in France and Belgium. 


Canadian Women in the Sky

Book Review: Elizabeth Gillan Muir provides a different perspective on aviation history by focusing on the experiences of women. Muir begins with the earliest experiments with air travel, when it was considered somewhat shocking for a woman to fly, even as a passenger.


The All-Canadian Game: Crokinole

Fiction Feature: Maybe you have a board in your basement or in your family’s cabin. Or maybe you’ve never heard of the game invented in Ontario nearly 150 years ago: crokinole.


Notorious Canadian Stage-coach Bandit

Adopting the alias Pearl Hart, Lillie Davy escaped from a hardscrabble childhood with determination and a six-shooter.

For the Record: Early Canadian Travel Photography

The National Gallery of Canada is showcasing early nineteenth century Canadian travel photos from the Library and Archives Canada collection.


Supply Line by the Canadian War Museum

Bringing the museum into your classroom has never been easier.