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Book Review: If anyone can take the topic of colonial settlement on the prairies and make it sing, it’s Carter. A historian in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, her focus is the intersection of gendered colonial-Indigenous relations on the prairies. With Imperial Plots, Carter has again proven her talents.

Before there was Montréal, there was Hochelaga — a sixteenth-century agricultural community that mysteriously vanished. 

Book Review: In From Treaties to Reserves, D.J. Hall focuses on Alberta and details the critical period during which the newly formed Canadian state transformed Indigenous peoples from their own selves into menials confined to reserves for the convenience of white newcomers who were determined to have their land.

Book Review: Authors Poelzer and Coates opt for breadth respecting events of the past several decades. As well as providing a useful primer, a principal reason for their broad approach is to enable those of us interested in one or the other aspect of their “road map” to acquire just enough information to be able to search other sources.

A look at the priest behind the men’s Olympic team, and other recently released books.

See what’s available in the April-May 2018 issue of Canada’s History magazine.

Book Review: The nucleus of the book is Morris’s account of her mother’s institutionalization for seventeen years at British Columbia’s Nanaimo Indian Hospital, as well as Morris’s own experiences of racism in the Canadian health system.

Stratford Festival marks Canada 150 with two challenging plays

Book Review: Even with my interest in natural history, I didn’t expect to find this five-hundred-plus-page tome all that engaging, given the dry title. Yet I found myself drawn in to Wetherell’s accessible, sometimes-passionate, always measured writing style.

Sara Janes' presentation “Records We Are Not Proud Of: Archival Outreach and Controversial Materials” from the Beyond 150: Telling Our Stories Twitter Conference held in August 2017.