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Agnes Macphail, the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons, on sexism in politics and daily life

‘It had been rumoured erroneously that she believed in polygamy. It is now well established that she is sceptical of matrimony even in its simplest form.’

A look at the late Duke of Edinburgh through the years

From the archives: These eight stories from the Maclean’s archive dating back to 1982 help explain the background to Canada’s deadliest terror attack

Ahead of the last solar eclipse in Canada, astronomer and author Terence Dickinson described the growing excitement for the event

From the archives in 1966: When a private investigator infiltrated the recently founded Canadian Nazi Party, he discovered an embarrassingly threadbare and delusional organization

From the archives in 1940: As Allied troops flee Dunkirk, former British MP and Canadian-born journalist Beverley Baxter describes a nation facing the onslaught of fate

In this Maclean’s cover story from 2000, the boy wizard makes a spectacular return in a novel that lives up to all the hype

Here’s how Maclean’s covered the birth of Prince William on June 21, 1982—back when everyone thought his name would be George, Charles, Edward, Philip or Louis

Seven years ago this month the Canadians captured Vimy Ridge. What does this famous hill look like to-day?

Holiday scenes from A.J. Casson, Oscar Cahén, Peter Whalley and more

A Maclean’s special report from 1984 on the investigation into infant deaths at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children