Christopher Moore's History News

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...

  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...

Hakai , a magazine about coastal things, reports on the remarkable archaeology project that has been going on for the last twenty years aro...

The New York Times has a long report on new studies of the Shigir Idol, a carved wooden monument found east of the Ural mountains of Russia...

Long ago and far away A recent archaeological identification from several sites in the Brooks Range of Alaska looks innocuous: a few bright ...

The Globe and Mail has a very good obituary article on Selma Barkham.  I was going to say "Selma Barkham, historian," and she...

The CBC News website   recently ran a story on last year's marine archaeology work at the HMS Erebus site -- the most successful inv...

A stop on the Kelp Highway? Smithsonian Magazine for January offers "The Fertile Shore," which starts with archaeologists ...

Know how these differ from Clovis points?  Well, they do. Recent data from an archaeological site in Idaho sets out new evidence for a ...

John Franklin and all his men are still dead. The how (entrapment by ice, followed eventually by starvation) and the why (bad luck, fail...

A couple of years ago, a condominium construction dig in the high density neighbourhood at the intersection of Bathurst Street and Fort ...

PM Trudeau and Tsilhqot'in representatives Writer Terry Glavin, always an interesting -- and unpredictable -- writer on British Col...

It has long been one of John Ralston Saul's talking points in his case that Canada has abjectly neglected, if not actually denied, t...

probably just some bones, nothing to see here News reports of a human presence in North America 130,000 years ago, as evidence by an ar...

Pretty sure that's a Canadian archaeologist at work Dean Beeby, for CBC News, reports on the first exhibition of materials from ...

Turns out that when the privately-founded Arctic Research Foundation, which has been a junior partner to Parks Canada and the Canada Coast ...

Terror's helm, photographed by Arctic Research Foundation I was getting sceptical about Search for Franklin II, where the PR seeme...

CBC News had a feature last night on this summer's excavations at Point Rosee, Nfld, the ones prompted by innovative satellite anal...

Active History returns from hiatus with Alan MacEachern going deep on Bering Land Bridge theory -- and, it seems, the penchant of Canadia...

Writer John Lorinc puzzles out why a notable piece of Toronto urban history and archaeology will go unnoted. There’s an elegant symmetry...