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News releases and reports issued by Canada's History Society.

Sitting On Fire

In 1972, Canada took in thousands of Ugandan Asians who were stripped of their citizenship and given only ninety days to leave their homeland.


Solving the Franklin Mystery

After 175 years, searchers close in on answers to what actually doomed the tragic 1845 Northwest Passage voyage.


Lava Land

The story of Canada’s volcanic past is written in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.


Bearing Witness

Book Review: No one had ever seen anything like it. Nor would anyone again, until 1945, when an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.


Montreal, City of Secrets

Book Review: When the United States of America went to war against itself in 1861, it sparked a conflict of catastrophic proportions.


Oh, Deer!

From the archives: In the Autumn 1962 issue of The Beaver, writer and photographer Leonard Lee Rue III travelled to northern Ontario to document the habits and habitats of Odocoileus virginianus, the white-tailed deer.


Our Backs Warmed by the Sun

Book Review: In Our Backs Warmed by the Sun, Vera Maloff introduces readers to hard-working, deeply principled people in British Columbia’s Kootenay region who paid dearly for their commitment to peace.


Winging It

From the archives: ‘Interest and thrills’ abounded during a 1937 voyage in search of seabirds along the Labrador coast.


Mills of the Gods

See the groundbreaking CBC documentary that was among the first to reveal the horrifying reality of the Vietnam War.