Christopher Moore's History News

(I meant to post this yesterday on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, but things intervened.) Truth Before Reconciliation: Confr...

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...

University of Manitoba Press announces a forthcoming title for September 2026: Truth before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School D...

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...

  Features THE UNSETTLED PAST In a stature-toppling era, Parks Canada adapts its retelling of this country’s complex history.  by Christophe...

Rick Salutin : Conservative academic/journalist Andrew Potter catalogues in the substack The Line why he abhors design changes in the new pa...

Today is National Truth and Reconciliation Day. It's important to acknowledge the residential school survivors, to salute the Orange Shi...

Eva Jewell, an indigenous sociologist, and historian Ian Mosby, both of the (newly renamed) Toronto Metropolitan University, have a strong p...

At the recent Governor-General's History Awards in Ottawa, Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was awarde...

At the Ormsby Review , J.R. Miller, the author of a shelf of authoritative works on indigenous-settler relations, reviews Royally Wronged , ...

I didn't see much notice of a recent Ontario Court of Appeal case beyond this Canadian Press story in the Globe and Mail . But what it s...

History News Network is an American website that daily publishes a substantial amount of original commentary by historians, as well as repri...

  "Hiding in Plain Sight" by Kathleen Mackenzie and Sean Carleton, published the other day by Active History , is more evidence t...

The current New Yorker has an article by Sam Knight about how Britain's National Trust is beginning to deal with the fact that many of...

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography 's weekly online biography today offers the life of an eight year old boy, Allen Willie , who was b...

I recently noted here  an impressive public event in Kingston, in which Charlotte Gray, Lee Maracle, and I were invited to discuss what to ...

On Thursday I went to Kingston at the invitation of the Kingston Historical Society to give the Address at the annual graveside commemora...

The Canadian Historical Association, meeting in Saskatchewan, has voted to remove the name of John A. Macdonald from its premiere prize, t...

Canada's History has announced publication of  Treaties and the Treaty Relationship , a book length exploration of treaties, treaty ...

Today practically no one knows who Hector Langevin was, except as the namesake of an imposing stonepile called the Langevin Block in Ottaw...