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Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 makes an original and compelling contribution to our knowledge of how the Canadian fiscal regime was created, reformed, and received by the State, one both framing and framed by the complex interplay of diverse sets of interests, ideas, and principles.

Bill Waiser has devoted his career to building a better understanding and appreciation for our history. He has done that through the classroom, including more than three decades as a university professor, as well as in newspapers and magazines, in books, on radio and television, and in hundreds of public presentations.

Live Our Heritage/Vivre notre héritage was a two-year project to collect, preserve, and share the history of Métis-sur-Mer, a small town in Quebec’s Lower St. Lawrence region.

Canada’s National History Society acknowledges that we meet and work across the ancestral lands of many Indigenous peoples. While the Society is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, within Treaty 1 territory — the traditional lands of First Nation Anishinabe, Ininew, Anisininew, Dene, and Dakota and the homeland of the Métis Nation — the work of the Society extends to all ancestral lands in this place now known as Canada.

By sharing our stories, we help to unite Canadians from coast to coast.

George Feyer was at one time Canada’s most celebrated cartoonist. But fame could not erase his dark side.

Professor Joe Martin discusses how Canada and the United States diverged in the development of their banking systems.

Book Review: The latest study of the Winnipeg General Strike is titled For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt. Both the title and the various essays from different authors make it clear that this is history from a definite point of view.

Agricultural fairs and exhibitions have played an important role in Canada for nearly two centuries.

Book review: The capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 is the defining battle of Canada’s Great War. The erection of the country’s national memorial on those shell-cratered heights, unveiled in 1936 before thousands of veterans, contributed to the legend of Vimy as a critical moment in the country’s history.