Five Amazing Facts about Trivial Pursuit – The most successful Canadia...
One afternoon in December 1979, Montréal journalists Chris Haney and Scott Abbott sketched out an idea for a board game. It...
Accessibility and Inclusiveness: Evolving Resources for People Impacte...
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) Foundation’s collection sheds light on the ongoing creativity of designers...
A Silk Robe and Ten Thousand Porcelain Dishes: Links Between Early Can...
In 1634, French explorer Jean Nicollet carried “a robe of Chinese damask, adorned with flowers and multi-coloured birds” on...
A Spoonful of Mystery: In search of early Canada’s most famous pewter ...
At least once or twice a year, pewter utensils — with their quiet charm — appear in auction catalogues and the inventories of...
Pandemic Protests and “Freedom Convoy” Context
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the end of the month-long protests known as the “Freedom Convoy.” It also marks...
Qajartalik 2022 – Collaborative Community-Based Archaeological Fieldwo...
Much like everything else, my ability as a Museum curator to do archaeological fieldwork has been impacted by the COVID-19...
What DNA Analysis Can Tell us About Bytown Settlers
By looking at it today, you would never know that part of downtown Ottawa was built on the first settlers’ cemetery of Bytown,...
Archaeology Without Borders: Contact-Era Archaeology in Maine
My role as Curator of Eastern Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of History is to enhance the understanding of Canadian...
“Desserts” is “Stressed” Backwards: COVID-19 and Pandemic Foodways in ...
When her children were sent home in March 2020 due to the first COVID-19 lockdown, Saskatchewan mom Dawna Doell decided that...
Signs of the COVID-19 Era: Collecting Pandemic History
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced significant adaptation and innovation, while exposing long-standing inequities in Canada...
Allan MacEachen, the “Celtic Sphinx” (1921–2017)
Politician Allan MacEachen would have turned 100 years old in 2021. Although he had a number of nicknames over the course of...
Vaccine Mandates in Historical Context
As Canadians face another winter of COVID-19, vaccine mandates — the proof often required to work, shop or participate in...
Freshly Pressed: Place-Making in the Pretty Harbour!
Besides a freshly pressed orange, is there anything that smells better than a fresh off the press archaeological...
Daniel Weetaluktuk: A Community Archaeology Pioneer
International Inuit Day (November 7), proclaimed by the Inuit Circumpolar Council, provides an opportunity to celebrate the...
An archaeology wonder moment
As archaeologists, we are often asked about the best object we ever found. For me, what is most important is how we found it,...
Public help survey endangered archaeological sites
One of the fundamental parts of an archaeologist’s job is to find archaeological sites. There are many ways to do this, from...
Repatriation Project Reveals Remarkable Story – Part 2: Telling ...
In our previous post, we introduced you to an Inuit man who lived eight centuries ago. During the process of repatriating his...
Repatriation Project Reveals Remarkable Story
Part 1: The Story One of the guiding principles of the new Canadian History Hall is to present this country’s history from...
A collection of nearly 75,000 artifacts tells the story of Fort Fronte...
Breaking ground on a condominium project doesn’t always involve an international war. In the case of the Frontenac Village...
Solving a northern mystery
In 1954 at Native Point, Southampton Island, in what is now Nunavut, a Smithsonian archeologist excavated a partially exposed...