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Canadian History

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Whose Stories Do We Tell?

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography aims to record noteworthy lives from “all points of view.” Six decades into its mission, what that means is still up for debate Read More

Close up shot of a black and white photo of Harold Wastasecoot in a metal frame containing stars, moons and suns, and a colour photo of Maria Wastasecoot in a metal frame in the shape of a tea pot. The photos are resting on a shelf next to a blue ceramic cylindrical container on the left side, and a hand is holding the handle of the teapot on the right side.

Finding A Way In

How do you talk about a family shattered by trauma? Read More

A man approaches an old wooden house with two women in front. A giant purse sits behind the house, in front of the setting sun

The Madam Who Shot the Mountie

How a brothel-keeper in 1880s Edmonton crossed the law – and won Read More

Graduation photo of Elizabeth Bagshaw

Doing the Devil’s Work

The local bishop called her a heretic. The Criminal Code deemed her work illegal. But Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw was more concerned with helping women at Canada’s first birth control centre Read More

These 10 Things Are Very Canadian

And they all have a surprising connection to U of T Read More

U of T Scarborough English professor Karina Vernon outside on a sunny day

A Lost Literature

Prof. Karina Vernon shares the untold stories of Black people on the Canadian Prairies Read More

Sunset shot of hands in the air, waving Canadian flags

What Canada Got Right

An acceptance of diversity may be the country’s defining strength Read More

Photo of two students and Prof. Laurie Bertram in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

“The Oldest Profession in Canada”

Students in Laurie Bertram’s class explore a history that’s often hidden Read More

The Pointers by Tom Thomson

Body Double

A U of T team finally settles the question of where Tom Thomson was buried Read More

Douglas McCurdy at the wheel of a plane.

The Aviator

Brave, dashing and touched by the spirit of adventure, Douglas McCurdy became the first person to fly an airplane out of sight of land Read More

Wilfrid Laurier.

Lives Lived

A project 50 years in the making tells Canada's story through its people Read More

Painting of an angel with white wings, wearing a flowing beige dress and a blue head scarf, standing between the V-shaped edges of the Flavelle House's arched ceiling

Heavens Above

The ceiling in Flavelle House is a great example of art nouveau Read More

Faculty of Pharmacy's museum

Grist for the Mill

Medicine wasn't always so easy to swallow Read More

The Evolution of the Book in Canada

New volume traces print back hundreds of years Read More

Bryan Walls has been operating the John Freeman Walls historic site and Underground Railroad Museum in Puce, Ontario, since 1985

Up from Slavery

Bryan Walls raises a monument to the Underground Railroad Read More

Making History

Dominion Institute aims to inform Canadians about their own history Read More