Canada's History

In our Autumn 2026 issue, we cover the world of the 1976 Summer Games and much more.

🏅 Olympic Memories: From unforgettable moments at the Games to Dick Pound’s reflections on Montreal 1976, we explore the legacy — and controversies — surrounding the Olympics.

🏚️ Abandoned Manitoba: A look at the stories left behind in the province’s forgotten buildings and structures.

🏳️‍🌈 Party Time: The history of drag balls in mid-20th-century Canada — and how that culture changed.

📚 Storied Spaces: How Canada’s public libraries became places of refuge, debate and discovery.

Plus: Enjoy The Beaver, our special annual section. This year, we explore the Indian Act, the Friendship Centre movement and the return of one of Canada's founding documents — the HBC Charter — to Manitoba.

🎧 Get the 1976 Summer Games' backstory as Heather Hiscox interviews Dick Pound on our podcast relaunch special.

Join educators, historians, researchers, and other professionals from across Canada and beyond for the 2026 Virtual Historical Thinking Institute (VHTI).

For our Summer 2026 issue, author Hilary Faktor wrote about the town of Flin Flon — the only one ever to be named after a science fiction character.

Flin Flon's annual Blueberry Jam Festival is here. Learn about its history through the link in the first comment.

Canada holds a reputation as a consistent defender of human rights at home and abroad. In Revisiting Human Rights in Canadian History, the book’s editors — human-rights historians Jennifer Tunnicliffe and Stephanie Bangarth — present essays that complicate that perspective. Tunnicliffe, an associate professor of history at Toronto Metropolitan University, spoke with Alex Mlynek, senior editor at Canada’s History, about what we can learn from this country’s approach to human rights.

Read the full interview through the link the first comment.