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Image of a street sign reading "Colonization road"

HIST 104

Pre-Confederation Canada: A History of the Present

Fall 2021

Fall 2020

Fall 2023

Image of the beheaded statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Montreal

HIST 105

Post-Confederation Canada: A History of the Present

Winter 2020

Winter 2021

Winter 2022

Fall 2022

Winter 2024

HIST 124

Canada: A History of the Present

Fall/Winter 2019/2020

Fall/Winter 2021/2022

Fall/Winter 2022/2023

Fall/Winter 2023/2024

Image of a Canadian WWI poster promoting the purchase of victory bonds

HIST 210

The History of Sexuality in Canada

Winter 2023

Image of a sketch of an Indigenous person making a trade with a French colonist

HIST 217

Indigenous Peoples and New France, 1534-1800

Winter 2021

Fall 2021

Fall 2022

Rows of t-shirts with Canadian symbols on sale at a gift shop

HIST 219

Canada: The History of an Idea

Fall 2019

Winter 2022

Winter 2024

An image of a travel poster that reads "Welcome to Canada" and shows people of different ethnicities, races, and ages, with Justin Trudeau in a black suit in the centre

Welcome to Canada, Illustration by Jacqui Oakley

HIST 242

Issues in Canadian History: Migration and Multiculturalism in Canada

Winter 2024

A blank map of Canada with a grey feather alongside it

HIST 260

An Introduction to Canadian History

Summer 2021

Summer 2019

Summer 2022

Summer 2023

Summer 2024

Image of a group of women at a booth fighting for women suffrage

HIST 283

Women and Gender in North America

Fall 2023

Winter 2022

Fall 2022

HIST 313

British North America, 1759‐1867

Fall/Winter 2020/2021

Fall/Winter 2021/2022

Fall/Winter 2022/2023

Fall/Winter 2023/2024

A drawing of Three Chiefs of the Huron Indians, Residing at La Jeune Lorette from 1825 by Charles Joseph Hullmandel

HIST 320

Indigenous History of North America

Fall/Winter 2020/2021

Fall/Winter 2019/2020

Fall/Winter 2021/2022

Fall/Winter 2022/2023

Fall/Winter 2023/2024

An old image of three young children from 1952 smiling

Photograph of Casey, Luke, and Marian Cats, circa 1952. Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (DI2016.237.11). CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

HIST 401

Topics in Canadian History: A Canadian History of the Family

Fall 2022

A print featuring the lake with large ships facing toward a shore with small settlements at sunset titled "A view of the city of Quebec the capital of Canada" painted by Hervey Smyth in 1763

Smyth, Hervey. "A view of the city of Quebec, the capital of Canada." 1763, National Library and Archives of Quebec, Quebec.

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: Exploring Early North American Communities

Winter 2024

Black and white photographs including: male dancers and a female beauty pageant with the front woman wearing a sash that reads "Miss Sask. Roughriders"

Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Courtesy of Toronto Public Library

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: Gender and the Body in Canada

Winter 2023

A painting with a yellow background featuring a brown canoe with 6 human figures and one dog-like figure in the canoe, a bird sitting at the front of the canoe, and two fish below the canoe who appear to be underwater.

Norval Morrisseau, Migration 1973 Acrylic on canvas 90.6 x 126 cm Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

HIST 403

Topics in Canadian History: The Geography, History, and Ecology of Anishinaabewaki: Anishinaabeg in the Great Lakes Basin, 1000ce-1867

Summer 2023

An image of a black and white Canadian stamp shoeing a child running to his father who is in military uniform holding out his hand to reach the child's with text that reads "Wait for me daddy"

HIST 403

Topics in History: Canada's Military: A History of an Unmilitary People

Fall 2023

HIST 416

Material History in Canada

Winter 2021

Winter 2022

Fall 2023

HIST 436

Topics in Canadian Legal History

Fall 2020

Fall 2021

Fall 2023

Image of the painting A Meeting of the School Trustees from 1885 by Robert Harris. Depicts a female schoolteacher addressing the seated male trustees.

Robert Harris, A Meeting of the School Trustees (1885), oil on canvas, 102.2 x 126.5 cm, NGC.

HIST 439

Schooling Canadians

Winter 2023

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