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David A. Robertson was the 2021 recipient of the Writers’ Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award as well as the Globe and Mail Children’s Storyteller of the Year. He is the author of numerous books for young readers including When We Were Alone, which won the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award.

Book Review: In 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada, author Aaron W. Hughes explores the far-reaching impacts of ten moments that range from 1970 to 2018.

See what’s available in the April-May 2023 issue of Canada’s History.

Historic locations are often crawling with ghost stories. Who are the spirits supposedly haunting these places? Illustrated by GMB Chomichuk.

Students will work in collaborative groups to examine the life and work of Harriet Tubman to analyze to what extent she changed history.

In the course overview unit, students are introduced to the six historical thinking concepts using activities that correspond to six events/topics of the twentieth century. 

Teaching Lost Stories consists of a set of lesson plans and historical documents that are aimed at intermediate and secondary-school students and which build on the Lost Stories documentary films.

From lesson plans to articles to podcasts — a list of resources to remember the First World War.

How do we remember what’s important about Canada and the Second World War?

Canada’s National History Society is proud to introduce #OurStoriesOurVoices, a new national youth program that gives students aged 9 to 18 the opportunity to explore a story that is important in their community’s past and to share the people, places, events, and objects that illuminate our diverse past.