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Discover Canadian history as you’ve never seen it before. Each issue of Canada’s History is a treasure of Canadian stories waiting to be discovered — a mix of engaging features, columns, reviews and commentary plus historic photos, maps and illustrations.

The Governor General's History Awards

Celebrating the very best in Canadian achievements in the field of history and heritage.

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  • This is an image of a a brown-rusted colored wooden boat on green grass.
    An abandoned York boat at York Factory. The boat was used in Quest for the Bay, a 2002 reality television series.
    Nelle Oosterom
  • In this image you see a person posing on a large anchor and in the background you see a large building. The grass is brown and green and the sky is overcast.
    Canada’s History senior editor Nelle Oosterom in front of the York Factory depot building.
    Don Finkbeiner
  • This image shows artifacts sitting on a wooden floor.
    Artifacts, including eighteenth-century cannons and shot, on display inside York Factory’s depot building.
    Nelle Oosterom
  • This image shows artifacts sitting on a wooden floor.
    Eighteenth-century anchor chain inside York Factory’s depot building.
    Nelle Oosterom
  • This image shows black drawing and writing on a wooden wall.
    Nineteenth-century writing and drawings on the interior walls of York Factory’s depot building.
    Nelle Oosterom
  • This image shows a blue sky in the background and water and rocks in the foreground.
    View of Hudson Bay from Churchill.
  • This image shows St Hearne July 1, 1767 carved into a grey rock.
    Initials carved into the rock at Sloop Cove near Prince of Wales Fort by explorer Samuel Hearne on July 1, 1767 — exactly a hundred years before Canada’s Confederation.
    Nelle Oosterom
  • This image shows people in a line getting onto a small plane floating in the water. Clouds and bright blue sky in the background.
    A float plane takes tourists on a fur trade tour from Gillam, Manitoba, to York Factory.
    Nelle Oosterom
  • This image shows a white welcome sign, with rocks and trees around it.
    A sign welcoming visitors to Churchill, Manitoba, the “polar bear capital of the world” and location of Prince of Wales Fort.
    Nelle Oosterom
  • Image of four people standing in front of a grave site that has an old steel fence around the grave.
    Descendants of Chief Factor William Sinclair gather at his grave site at York Factory.
    Nelle Oosterom

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