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Louis the parrot fought the forces of progress in British Columbia’s capital — and won.

In this article, Maxime Dagenais explores the subject of the Canadian Rebellion and how it is taught in middle and high schools in Canada.

In Yukon, keys to the past are sometimes preserved in patches of ice.

Book Review: Dam Builders is wonderfully illustrated with hundreds of photographs, most of which were taken by the author over almost three decades of studying and enjoying wildlife in their natural settings. In his book Runtz covers everything from their evolution and the variety of species, to their impact on our country (both economically and ecologically), to their distinctive physiological characteristics and behaviours.

We have so many great words that you won’t hear outside of Canada. Even better, many of those words are the same in French and English.

Over the first twenty years, the song swept through Quebec, sung in churches and on all formal occasions, but having no English words, people across Canada composed their own lyrics, and by the 1920s, English Canadians sang two hundred versions.

The Hill 70 Memorial Project seeks to educate and commemorate overlooked First World War victory.

When a Catholic couple was charged with killing a Protestant neighbour in Canada West, it became a lightning rod for partisan passions.

Who was the man who became Canada’s seventh prime minister?

From the archive: A feature story in the Winter 1983 issue of The Beaver tells the story of an Inuit woman in the eighteenth century who travelled to England against her will and became an essential figure in diplomatic relations between European traders and Indigenous peoples.