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Fascinating Photos Show How Canada Looked When It Was Created 159 Years Ago

Today is Canada Day. 159 years ago, the modern-day provinces of Ontario, Quebec, as well as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick formed a single political entity called the Dominion of Ca...

Mining Data and Canada’s Great Acceleration

Josh Sandlos This is the fourth post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series are cro...

Good News in History, May 19

115 years ago today, the world’s first national park department, Parks Canada, was established, 5 years before its counterpart in the US Today they manage the country’s 48 National...

Happy Independence Day 2026 – Mexico & Canada

James Cullingham Canada and Mexico approach an historic juncture in their relations with the United States. Both countries face a July 1 deadline over the Canada–United States–Mexi...

For my fellow canadian leftists

ivyroseiris:For my fellow canadian leftistsCanada is a colonial white supremacist genocidal state, just like the US and Israel. Mark Carney literally said Canada Strong will Make A...

We Highlight the Cars Built North of the Border to Celebrate Canada Day

No, Canada's car-manufacturing history is not just about the Bricklin SV-1. Yes, one of the modern factories has a Tim Hortons in it.

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Supporting Collective Bargaining, Unless it Works: The Past and Present of Federal Labour Rights Suppression in Canada

Christo Aivalis This is the third and final post in the Canada Post and Canadian Culture series. Canada Post and its employees have had an undeniable impact on the culture of this...

Fighting Fires: Quebec Separatism in Canada – Chile Relations, 1968

Thomas Stroyan In February 1968, the Quebec government agreed to loan Chile two Canadair CL-215s (also known as the CANSO). The CL-215 was an amphibious flying boat built for the p...

horsing around …

Toronto.Until past WW2, Canada was more rural than urban. In the 20s and 30s, youngsters from the east would go west via trains to help with the fall harvest. At left is a photogra...

Good News in History, June 23

139 years ago today, The Rocky Mountains Park Act passed Canadian parliament, establishing Banff National Park, the nation’s largest and most famous park. It was modeled on the law...

O Canada, How We Love You…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/field-school-fort-st-john-indigenous-history-9.7234615

Archaeology field school near Fort St. John reflects 12,500 years of Indigenous history | CBC News

Ontario Celebrates National Indigenous History Month

In response to the vancouver data centers

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Knowledge and Science in Canada’s Great Acceleration

Shannon Stunden Bower This is the sixth post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series...

Canada Day a moment of pride, patriotism and melanchony in Alberta

On Oct. 19, voters are to decide whether they want the province to remain in Canada or to start the process for holding a second, binding vote on quitting Confederation.

Canada Immigration: The Business of Winning and Losing

Canada’s immigration story is impossible to miss. Whenever I’m at a grocery store in a major Canadian city, there’s a 90% chance I’ll bump into a fellow immigrant—staff and shopper...

Teaching in Interesting Times: America @ 250 in the Canadian Classroom

A Canadian historian explores teaching U.S. history during America’s 250th anniversary through student projects, debate, and critical reflection. The post Teaching in Interesting T...

A Quebec-made video game set in a fictionalized version of the American Deep South, called South of…

A Quebec-made game set in the Deep South just won big. It says a lot about Canada’s gaming industry | CBC NewsA Quebec-made video game set in a fictionalized version of the America...

How Canada’s Weather Has Changed Over the Centuries

Historical records stretching back centuries offer a rare glimpse into Canada's changing climate – and the extremes that shaped the country The post How Canada’s Weather Has Change...

Active History Summer Hiatus

It Won’t Be Long Now! A Scene at the Bathing Beach at Port Dalhousie, Ontario,” May 2, 1930, photo by Canadian National Railways, published by the Toronto Star (Toronto Star Archiv...

'This is an honour': Plenty of Canada Day cheer at citizenship ceremony in Vancouver

The event at Canada Place, one of dozens held across the country on July 1, saw 60 people become new Canadian citizens

Americans are looking back centuries to find Canadian ancestors — and citizenship

Cody Sibley was born and raised in Louisiana, but he always felt his family shared strong ties to Canada thanks to his Acadian ancestors from Nova Scotia. Sibley said that as an ei...