Christopher Moore's History News

I was slow in giving a close read to the long story by Patrick White and Willow Fiddler about the Tk’emlúps Residential School and residenti...

  Charlie Angus's Ring of Fire Youtube ad --  cause you may be sick of Ontario's one. Okay, Donald Trump hates the Reagan ad.  The w...

Ogoki/Marten Falls in northern Ontario Reading Saturday's Globe and Mail , I thought of adding a new headline to my (imaginary) collecti...

NiCHE  has just posted a terrific interview with Hugh Brody .  Originally a British anthropology student, Brody made himself into an embedde...

The TVOntario blog TVO Today, which carries historical essays from time to time, has a recent post by broadcaster Steve Paikin on a Toronto...

No king in Dawson City Recently, the world had a little giggle over the oddity that is the "Canadian" monarchy from this story. (I...

  It's the thirtieth anniversary.  Historica's Memory Project has a seminar about National Indigenous Veterans Day here

Mizanay Gheezhik, (Murray Sinclair) 1951-2024 Never met him. But I can't think of anyone who did more to change the sense of what indige...

The black letter of the Huron-Robinson Treaty covering parts of south-central Ontario is pretty plain: there will be annual payments in exch...

Who knew the fate of the St Lawrence Iroquoians -- the people whom Jacques Cartier was welcomed by in 1535 at Stadacona and Hochelaga and wh...

Happy solstice --tho' technically it arrived yesterday afternoon, this being a leap year. Enjoy the daylight.  It is also National Indig...

I have been meaning to take a deep dive into Thomas Peace's big new book The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime ...

Here's one worth looking for, and not just for proof that Canadian history (including political history, including the history of ninete...

  I missed this when it was first posted at the Canadian Museum of History blog last November: an announcement of a volume marking the fift...

I’m not the intended reader for Taiaiake Alfred’s new book It’s All About the Land . You probably aren’t either.  Mostly, Alfred is addressi...

Tonight the new Canadian Institute for Historical Education continues its series, which has seemed to constitute a "Rehabilitate John A...

Kahnawà:ke  Mohawk philosopher and political strategist Taiaiake Alfred speaks online next week about his new book It's All About the La...

Daniel N. Paul , Mi'kmaw elder, activist, and historian of his nation, was the author of several historical works, most notably  We Were...

I noted the cover of the June-July Canada's History last month. But now I have my subscription copy, hope you got yours, I have to ment...

  This month at Canada's History you can choose your cover image.  They have done a split run. The newsstand cover -- if you can find a...