Charlotte Gray is a biographer and historian who won the Pierre Berton Award in 2003. The Governor-General of Canada usually chooses her words with careful, unsmiling deliberation. But her anger at ...

Canadian history has some surprising moments that sound exaggerated at first, but are backed by real events that shaped the ...

When the Canadian Museum of Civilization emerges from renovations in 2017 to become the new Canadian Museum of History just in time for the 150th anniversary of Confederation, the Rocket's jersey is ...

Canadian Encyclopedia: More than 35,000 entries in English and French on important Canadian places, people, events, and things. Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Authoritative biographical information ...

Under the lead authorship of Professor Emeriitus David Chuenyan Lai (U. Vic., Geography), a widely respected expert in the history and social and political dynamics of Chinatowns in Canada, we have ...

Was Lester B. Pearson too nice to be prime minister? Was John Diefenbaker a mad, bug-eyed egotist? And was Pierre and Margaret Trudeau’s marital relationship a little like that of father and daughter?

It is unclear what Peter Greyson might say, since he is unwilling to talk about July 22, 1983, the day he dumped red paint on the vital Canadian historical document 6 minute read You can save this ...

Floor-crossing often met with outrage, but nothing in the rules to stop it. Traitor, shameful, brave, principled. There’s a spectrum of terms used to describe MPs who cross the floor. But history ...