Adam Pounder and Lori Buchanan help their students connect their family past to critical moments in Canadian history. Students start by selecting and interviewing a relative, searching through family photographs, and writing about their relative’s experiences.
Francis Lalande’s Histoire à vélo project is a dynamic, environmentally friendly, and transdisciplinary initiative that uses the bicycle as a means of teaching history.
From flimsy skin boats, to graceful canoes, to powerful steamboats, vessels of one kind or another have carried people over the waterways of Canada's West.
Doug Sinclair and Eduard Buckman, the film crew for Fur Country, struggle with the terrain, which delays their arrival in Moose Factory until Christmas afternoon.
The fever of the Klondike gold rush has long passed. But the legacy of those wild-eyed fortune seekers still lives large in the land of the midnight sun.
Book Review: Janis Thiessen’s book Snacks: A Canadian Food History is an excellent oral history that delves into the nostalgic and wonderful world of favourite Canadian brands.