Arrival of Jacques Cartier at Stadacona, 1535

A Victorian-era watercolour illustration of Jacques Cartier's arrival in Stadacona, which was traditional Iroquoian territory in the 1500s. Note that the Iroquois had boats and were fishing in that area, but that they were known to fish even further...

Loix des Douzes Tables

The Twelve Tables Rome's First Legal Code is Drawn up by a Commission Number 36 in Figures de l'histoire de la république romaine accompagnées d'un précis historique, Paris, an VIII. ...

No taxation without representation

Print shows citizens in Boston burning proclamations from England pertaining to the stamp act of 1765, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. ...

Part of a Palisaded Huron Iroquois Village

Cartier and Sagard, in their narratives, gave us a good idea of the construction of a typical palisaded Huron-Iroquois village. This modern sketch by Charles W. Jefferys in 1942 illustrates what it was like. ...

Jules-Paul Tardivel (1895-1921)

Jules-Paul Tardivel (post-Confederation ultramontanist nationalist) (2 September 1851 – 24 April 1905) was an American–Québécois writer and a significant promoter of Quebec nationalism. In the 1880s, he founded La Verité, a weekly newspaper e...

Roman Calendar

Rendering and an actual image of the Fasti Antiates, a painted wall-calendar from the late Roman Republic, the oldest archaeologically attested local Roman calendar and the only such calendar known from before the Julian calendar reforms. (Drawing ...