This is the final excerpt from A Nation’s Paper: The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada, a collection of history essays from Globe writers past and present, coming Oct. 15 from Signal/McClelland & ...

The 1970s were an interesting time. Disco was hot, bell-bottoms were in and inflation started to soar. The consumer price index (CPI), which measures inflation, was just 1% at the beginning of 1971.

The discovery of the remains of hundreds of children at the sites of defunct schools in British Columbia and southern Saskatchewan has rekindled discussion of a sinister time in Canada’s history. By ...

In her book, He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada, which was published in September 2025, Drohan ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 40, No. 1, Special Capsule Issue on Historical Consciousness (2017), pp. 1-24 (24 pages) Abstract Hosted in the nation’s capital, ...

Staff and students at a residential school in Fort Simpson, BC. A school established there in the 1850s had 200 students as of 1859. Photo from the United Church of Canada Archives, 93.049P142, via ...

Baseball has a long history in Canada. While the country didn’t get an established Major League Baseball team until 1969, with the formation of the Montreal Expos, several minor league teams had ...