By Sean Carleton PhD Candidate Frost Centre for Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies Trent University Introduction The Continuing Co-optation of Tecumseh “My name is Tecumseh”: Race and ...

In 1962, at seven months of age, Robert Doucette, the former President of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, was removed from his home in the northern Saskatchewan community of Buffalo Narrows. He ...

Nancy Janovicek and Karissa Patton This button is from Nancy’s political button “archive.” She first wore it in the 1990s when groups attempted to ban books from libraries, including Lesléa ...

Nancy Janovicek and Karissa Patton On July 10, the Alberta government introduced new standards for school libraries “to ensure school library materials are age-appropriate.” The ministerial order ...

ActiveHistory.ca and the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies have partnered together to compile a collection of essays commemorating the 1763 Royal Proclamation. This collection of essays explores … ...

David Frank I think I first learned about this remarkable painting when my friend Allen Seager sent me a postcard from the Art Gallery of Ontario. Eventually I used it as the cover illustration for my ...

David Webster– Tariffs on you!– No, bigger tariffs on you!– No, I have the biggest, most beautiful tariffs, and I am slapping them on you! Anyone could be excused for thinking it … ...

Whether it’s a Mars, Cadbury, Hershey, Nestle or Snickers chocolate bar, most of us relish biting into one of life’s most tasty, cheap indulgences: chocolate.

This week, I talk with Barbara Messamore, author of Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election about one of Canada’s turning point elections. We discuss the post-war economy’s, ...

A Community History makes a vital contribution to Métis historiography and to the growing body of scholarship that centers Indigenous voices in historical ...

Active History is hiring a part-time site manager. Come work with us! Editorial meeting for “les pages féminines,” La Presse newsroom, 4 March 1969. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Site ...

In the last few months, there has been a growing debate about how historians should respond to AI. And that’s a good thing. I’ve argued that we need to engage with the technology or risk becoming ...