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Milena Ivkovic believes her students should be given opportunities to make real meaning out of history, not just learn about it. By analyzing primary source documents from multiple perspectives, she encourages students to grapple with history, to dig deeper into it, and to develop a greater understanding of what these sources tell us about our history and ourselves.

Rose Fine-Meyer created a senior level high–school Interdisciplinary Studies course entitled Archives and Local History which has received accreditation as part of the Ontario curriculum.

Our special advertising section includes the latest history titles along with other new and recent books from Canadian publishers.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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