Photo of Jeannie Sheppard (The Daily Register, December 18, 1980) overlaid with waves. Daze Jefferies and Rhea Rollmann ...

By Sean Graham As part of our series with the 2025 Shannon Lecture Series, I talk with Sarah Hogenbirk, who will deliver the opening lecture on Monday entitled ‘Fighting for Their Place and ...

By Christine Cooling When Canadians tuned into their first radio broadcasts in the 1920s, much of what they listened to ...

Author’s great-grandfather on his first trip back to China to marry. Note the poor quality of the microfilm image and especially photograph. “Wong Guey Yem,” Department of Employment and ...

Hannah Roth Cooley Over roughly the last decade, settler Canadians and Americans have started to take note of Indigenous activist initiatives, thanks in large part to social media. Beginning with the ...

Hannah Roth Cooley Over roughly the last decade, settler Canadians and Americans have started to take note of Indigenous activist initiatives, thanks in large part to social media. Beginning with the ...

By Sean Graham We’re back from our summer hiatus with a new season and we’re kicking it off by talking with Craig Baird, the host of Canada History Ehx about his new book ...

Hand towel, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Kiyo Goto Collection, 2003.7.37, photo by Tadafumi Tamura. Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro and Ayaka Yoshimizu What can one racialized ...

Hannah Roth Cooley Over roughly the last decade, settler Canadians and Americans have started to take note of Indigenous activist initiatives, thanks in large part to social media. Beginning with the ...

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“The upholstery department is the only place where women are employed in the Durant automobile factory.” Your Future Car (film), 1922, Library and Archives Canada, ISN 185644. For three consecutive ...