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Book Review: The book Direct Action Gets the Goods is a comic anthology of stories chronicling the history of the strike in Canada.

Book Review: The voices of the medics shine through in the book Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire.

Book Review: The book Hunger, by Rick Blom, examines how food impacted military forces during the First World War.

Canadian boxer Tommy Burns was eager to take on all comers, regardless of their race. But in 1908, he lost his world heavyweight title to a Black boxer — infuriating white society. The groundbreaking choice to fight Jack Johnson ended up costing Burns his boxing career. Watch the video of this famous bout.

Book Review: Beauty pageants in twentieth- century Canada may have seemed like frivolous entertainment. However, according to the new book Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity, contests searching for the “ideal Canadian girl” also functioned as tools to reinforce gender, race, and class anxieties in a white settler society.

A stone relic recalls Quebec City’s once-thriving Chinatown.

Three organizations to receive a $50,000 grant for projects that share the stories of inspiring people who have shaped Atlantic Canadian history and society

At Canada’s National History Society, we’ve always believed in the importance of knowing our past.

Book Review: Where New World Dreams excels is in the quality and quantity of its artwork. This coffee-table-sized book is chock full of posters, many in full colour, that advertise such alluring prospects as “Ready- Made Farms in Western Canada” and that encourage immigrants via appeals such as “Canada wants women for household work... Good wages, employment guaranteed.”

In this podcast series, Canada’s History spoke with the finalists for the 2023 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.