The Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery will be established at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design.

An Ottawa cemetery's plaques show a model for how to remember the good with the bad when it comes to Canada's controversial founding figures.

'Canadian niceness you can really equate with Canadian whiteness, and you can really equate that with Canadian Britishness.'

"It really is the missing piece of Canadian history."

It's Asian Heritage Month, but being Asian wasn't always celebrated in Canada. Saskatchewan's Chinese community faced discrimination for many years.

"They are so excited to tell us this story of this person or something maybe they didn't know before and it's just amazing."

There appears to be a regional divide in how fondly Canadians view prime ministers past.

Alan Webster Neill, the namesake of a Port Alberni school, for his efforts in the House of Commons to deny voting rights to Asian immigrants and other now-controversial positions.

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An art installation at this year's Bonavista Biennale is shining a light on a dark corner of Newfoundland's history - slave ships that were built on the island during the 1700s.