We are incredibly pleased to invite you to the CHA’s first book fair! We know that the book fair is a Congress highlight for CHA members, and as such we have done our best to replicate this experience for Charlottetown. The following presses will be in attendance at the annual meeting: Acadiensis Press American Review […]

The CHA’s Graduate Students’ Committee invites you to a roundtable of alumni from History and Archival Sciences graduate programs who work in and beyond the academy! The three panelists will discuss their career trajectories after grad school and how the skills gained in their graduate degree(s) helped them find ‘alt-ac’ success. An informal Q&A will

Submissions for the 2026 Gunn Prize for the best senior undergraduate or graduate student essay on Canadian immigration history are now being accepted. The $1000 prize is the result of a partnership between Carleton University and the Canadian Immigration Historical Society and will be awarded in August 2026. Submissions from the summer 2025, fall 2025, and

The Canadian Historical Association is delighted to announce that its 2027 annual meeting will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anisininew, Ininiwak/Nehethowuk, Nakoda, Oceti Sakowin/Dakota Oyate, the National Homeland of the Red River Métis, and Treaty One Territory. It will take place Monday to Wednesday, June 14-16, 2027, and will

On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, the Canadian Institute for Historical Education (CIHE) is seeking the delivery of an approximately 20,000 word research paper related to how the formation of that country led to or influenced the later formation of Canada. A stipend of $20,000 will be payable to

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize. (In alphabetical order). Cheryl Troupe, Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community. University of Manitoba Press, 2025. John Sandlos & Arn Keeling,

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Best (French-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize. (In alphabetical order). Frédéric Mercure Jolette, Réinventer Montréal. Ambitions et revers de trois urbanistes des Trente Glorieuses. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025. Gérard Bouchard, Terre des humbles. Les Saguenayens 1840-1940. Éditions du Boréal, 2025.

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize. (In alphabetical order). Eric T. Jennings, Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean. Yale University Press, 2025. Felix Cowan, The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918. University of Toronto Press, 2025. Joan Judge, The Politics

The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association invites you to an online roundtable discussion of Stephen Brooke’s prize-winning book, London 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City (Oxford University Press, 2024). London 1984 is the most recent winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, which recognizes an outstanding scholarly book in

This conference is hosted by the Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History and will take place at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, from October 2-4, 2026. The deadline to submit proposals is April 10, 2026. Click here to read the detailed call for proposals.

The 24th Biennial Conference of the ACQS will take place November 12-15, 2026 in Montréal. The conference theme is Crossings, Crossroads, Intersections: Québec Studies at the Crossroads of Fracture and Connection. The deadline to submit proposals is April 1, 2026. Click here to read the detailed call for proposals.

Études Canadiennes / Canadian Studies is pleased to announce a special issue, “Exploring Religious Dynamics in the Canadian Context: Spaces, People, and Circulation”. The deadline to submit proposals is March 31, 2026. Click here to read the detailed call for proposals.

The Canadian Historical Association’s Generative AI Subcommittee invites you to a webinar exploring tools and tips for using generative artificial intelligence in the historical profession. All are welcome! Date: Friday, 27 February 2026 Time: 1:00–2:30 pm EST Format: Online (Zoom) Speakers: L. K. Bertram, University of Toronto “Tar Pits, Moats + Herbal Brews: History-Inspired Tools

The Sansom Ideas Scholarship offers $10,000 to graduate students whose work relates to the history of ideas. Applications are due March 3, 2026. More information can be found here.

The Canadian Association for Irish Studies’ 2026 conference will take place at Université Laval from June 17-19, 2026. Deadline to submit proposals: February 15, 2026. Click here to read the detailed call for proposals.

The 53rd Annual Meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) will take place in Alexandroupolis, Greece, from October 8–11, 2026. Deadline to submit proposals: February 28, 2026. Click here to read the detailed call for proposals.

The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN) invites proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at Université de Montréal between June 3rd and 5th and coincides with the INKE Partnership annual meeting and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). The Society encourages submissions on all topics relating

The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) is holding its annual conference June 4-6, 2026 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The CSHPS will be joined in Halifax by three other CFHSS member organizations: CPA (Canadian Philosophy Association, meeting June 6-9), CSHPM (Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of

2025 marked the 10th anniversary of the filing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report. To recognize this milestone, CHEA will be holding its biennial meeting in Winnipeg, focusing on the role of Education in both building and deconstructing colonial systems of power. The meeting will take place October 15-17, 2026. Deadline to submit

The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University is proud to, once again, award the Wilson Book Prize. This prize is open to all major publishers of Canadian history and will be awarded to the book that offers the best exploration of Canadian history that, in the view of the Wilson Institute, succeeds in

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to host the 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 3-5 June, 2026. The meeting will overlap with the final day of the Canadian Historical Association’s annual meeting (June 1-3). Deadline to submit proposals: December 19, 2025. Click

You can’t spell “Charlottetown” without “CHA”! The CHA is thrilled to announce that its next Annual Meeting will be held Monday-Wednesday, June 1-3, 2026, in Charlottetown, PEI. The event will be hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island. As you will recall, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences announced in early May

The World Congress of Business History is pleased to announce a call for papers. Visit worldcbh.org to learn more. Deadline for CFP: December 1, 2025.

The CHA is delighted to announce that one of the booklets in its Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada series has been recorded as an audiobook. The Acadians (by Caroline-Isabelle Caron, 2015) is narrated by J.R. Bourgeois, creator of the Lost World of Cape Breton Island podcast, and was produced in collaboration with the CHA. The audiobook

Canada’s History is currently seeking the best community projects – completed in the past 18 months – for the 2025 edition of the Governor General’s History Awards for Excellence in Community Programming. These awards recognize programs and projects developed for the community by organizations dedicated to history, heritage, culture, or community life. Eligible projects include