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Open Book: A new book records the stories and experiences of some of the many Indigenous people who travelled to Britain and other parts of the world in the late eighteenth century and during the nineteenth century. 

Colourization project breathes new life into First World War images.

Reading List: A selection of new and recent Canadian labour-history books.

As we mark the magazine’s centennial, we reflect on the past, but we also want to share our aspirations for the future of Canada’s History.

From public-relations experts to romance novelists and news reporters, the people who helmed The Beaver left their marks on the magazine.

Eighteen teachers from across Canada are being recognized for their exceptional work in teaching Canadian history.

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.”