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A trade magnet for coastal First Nations in the mid-19th century, Victoria’s waterfront yields an unexpected trove of artifacts from many peoples.

A passion for the past inspires a young historian in Cornwall, Ontario, to memorialize inmates who died at a local “poor house.”

Book Review: The Group of Seven were shrewd self-mythologizers. Their overwhelming presence has tended to eclipse Canadian artists who worked around the turn of the twentieth century. A.K. Prakash’s Impressionism in Canada is a much needed corrective.

Book Review: In her latest book, Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture, Maria Tippett returns to Emily Carr and Bill Reid and considers them alongside six other “cultural producers” with ties to the province she now calls home. Her goal, as explained in the epilogue, is to tell “the story of how British Columbia’s culture was shaped during the twentieth century.”

Book Review: Official commemoration without conflict is rare. Struggling over how best to know ourselves is not unique to the twenty-first century. Cecilia Morgan, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, recounts in Commemorating Canada how Canadians have always grappled with making meaning of their shared and divisive history.

Nelle Oosterom investigates the historic underbelly of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside.

There is more to Calgary than Stampede and cowboys.

Tracking down lost cousins can be a challenge. But it's usually worth the effort.

A “lily among thorns” or a victim of colonialism? Maybe there’s another way to understand Canada’s only Aboriginal saint.

A Canadian soldier was so keen to enlist after the First World War broke out in 1914 that he neglected to tell his sweetheart. Read his letter of explanation.