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Weakness, lack of intelligence, mental instablility — a century ago, these were some of the many reasons given for why women were unfit to vote.

In the 1960s, Montreal was a Modern architectural showcase. From Place Ville Marie to Place Bonaventure to Expo 67, the city reverberated with the construction of new and remarkable buildings. Remarkable, too, for the time were the number of women architects at the centre of this activity.

This special digital issue celebrates some of the amazing women who helped make our country what it is today.

Book Review: Linda J. Quiney’s This Small Army of Women focuses on the long-buried story of nearly two thousand women from Canada and Newfoundland who signed up to be Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses, or VADs, in the First World War.

Book Review: Elizabeth Gillan Muir provides a different perspective on aviation history by focusing on the experiences of women. Muir begins with the earliest experiments with air travel, when it was considered somewhat shocking for a woman to fly, even as a passenger.

These ten women of Canadian history were featured at the History Makers Dinner at the Canadian Museum of History on October 16th, 2015.

Watch now: in this webinar educator Diane Vautour explains how she engaged her students through a historical role-play activity in which students debated the Wartime Elections Act as pioneering feminists, journalists and politicians.

What seemed like a golden opportunity for ranchers in the 1880s soured when the chinook winds failed to arrive in the winters of 1886–87 and 1906–7.

In a perfect world, the thirty women on this list would be household names. But for too long history textbooks have focused on great men, to the exclusion of all others.

In a perfect world, the thirty-six women on this list would be household names. But for too long history textbooks have focused on great men, to the exclusion of all others.