Rocking and rolling across the Atlantic on a voyage steeped in history aboard Cunard’s iconic ocean liner

On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a look at the system of IDs used to track and control Chinese residents

It plunged five million people into the dark and cold — the recovery would take years

From their beginnings in the late 19th century, salmon hatcheries have gone from cure to band-aid to crutch. Now, we can’t live without manufactured fish. 

Maps like the two pictured here were instrumental in opening up the countryside to urban North American bike owners

Today it’s home to a yacht club, but two centuries ago Melville Island was packed with prisoners, not boats

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s 18th-century map reveals how the pursuit of the humble fish helped shape the nation

A look at the cartographic gem commissioned 250 years ago by Quebec’s military governor

A celebration of the real Louis Riel, Métis leader and Manitoba founder, on the 150th anniversary of the Red River Resistance and the 175th of his birth

As sea level rise and the accelerating pace of coastal erosion threaten cultural heritage around the world, Canada has a lot to lose

Two hundred years before Franklin and 300 years before Amundsen, a daring Dane came closer to finding the Northwest Passage than anyone had before

The new headquarters of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is transforming the way the 90-year-old organization carries out its mandate

George Hunter made it his lifelong mission to show Canadians their country. Now, his iconic images have been compiled into a book. 

The daughter of a hereditary Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Johnson used her hard-won celebrity to challenge Indigenous stereotypes

The latest Heritage Minute from Historica Canada profiles Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak and is the first to be produced in three different languages

The former governor general of Canada reflects on the challenges facing Canadian women today