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Book review: Allyson D. Stevenson is the chair of Métis studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and the book Intimate Integration is based on her 2015 doctoral dissertation. While this is a scholarly work, it is nevertheless very readable and contains a rich trove of history documenting Indigenous and Métis child welfare in Saskatchewan during the last half of the twentieth century.

Book Review: Of the 2,800 Canadian nurses who served during the First World War, very few kept a record of their wartime experience. Thus, Ruth Loggie’s war diary is a treasure.

Book Review: Asleep in the Deep draws on the letters or diaries of other nurses — such as Loggie’s best friend, Clare Gass — to flesh out details of what Stamers’ three years of service might have been like.

Fiction Feature: A young boy named Justin finds a letter and learns about the Christmas truce of 1914.

Searching for lost cousins? Paul Jones offers nine suggestions to ease your task.

See what’s available in the February-March 2023 issue of Canada’s History.

Stephen Crew, a grade 12 student at St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, reflects on his 2017 visit to First and Second World War sites in France and Belgium. 

This lesson you will discuss with your students: How war has shaped Canada and its citizens; the influences of patriotism, propaganda and music on choices Canadians made during war.

Working in groups, students will create a collage of photographs, symbols, paintings, songs and/or poetry to visually tell the story of a group of Canadians during the past century.

Student will research significant figures in Manitoba's (or another Province / Territory) history and the impact these figures had/have on their lives today.