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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.

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

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

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. 

The squalor of nineteenth-century industrial cities prompted planners to come up with a novel solution: green space.

Fiction Feature: It’s 1880, and Calixa Lavallée is about to introduce “O Canada” in Quebec City. The original French words by Adolphe-Basile Routhier will stand, but who will get to decide what will be sung in English?

A journey to Cree land near Moose Factory reveals nature's delights.