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Mother-of-pearl gaming counters with elaborate patterns were used during card games.

Author of nineteen books, recognized for his major contributions in documenting Canadian corporate and business history in an accessible way.

Julie-Catherine Mercadier hopes that her grade 5–6 students, newly arrived in Canada, will come to understand the history behind the street names and sites around them.

Book Review: While Polar Winds recounts extraordinary tales of adventure, tragedy, and intrigue, it’s also a history of everyday life in the North. Readers will find themselves interested to learn about the complex impact aviation had on communication, health care, education, and the economy for Canada’s northern residents.

We celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday and how our country came to be with the silly, the serious and the surprising stories of our past. Meet some of the people who helped bring democracy to our country, the people who made it a country, and the people who watched along the way.

Canadians invited to view the videos and vote for their favourites.

Gabrielle Ayotte Garneau carries on the Basque storytelling tradition with a legend that has thrilled her neighbours for decades.

The use of rim locks in the British Isles predates the mortise locks and bored cylindrical locks that are more commonly used today. Unlike the latter types, which involve holes cut into a door, rim locks are affixed to a door’s surface.

In Sherbrooke, for one weekend, market-goers at the Marché de la Gare find themselves whisked back to the year 1900.

Book Review: It’s hard to think of a building that would have more or better tales to tell than Pier 21 in Halifax.