Richard Nerysoo was born in 1953 at a camp near the Peel River in the Northwest Territories. From an early age, Nerysoo was attracted to advocating for Indigenous rights in Canada. After the 1969 White Paper was released, that advocated for the end...
In the early-1860s, hundreds had been wiped out by disease. No family was left untouched. They had lived in interior British Columbia for thousands of years were and as they dealt with tragedy. Settlers looking for land moved into their territory...
When I was beginning to compile the list of premiers of the Northwest Territories, I thought about starting with the first, which was Frederick Haultain. He was also the last for eight decades. So, instead of starting with him and then jumping to...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at There was a time, in the 1960s and 1970s, where the man called Canada’s First Celebrity was so omnipresent, he got a second nickname… Mr. Television.He was a reporter, war correspondent, an...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Today’s episode is one of the spookiest of the year…It’s the story behind one of the wildest, strangest, and most beloved TV shows to ever air on Canadian television.It only lasted one season...
Support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Callander, Ontario was a small and quiet community in central Ontario, 280 kilometres north of Toronto.On May 27, 1934, if you asked someone outside the area about it, most couldn’t even find it on a...
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the home of the President of the United States.10 Downey Street, the home of the UK’s Prime Minister.24 Sussex, home to Canada’s Prime Minister.Or at least it was.Today, it is home to far too many corpses of rodents in...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Before I begin, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the episode you are about to hear was recorded on Treaty 6 Land.And a quick warning, some language used to describe Indigenous...
By 1960, 17 African nations had obtained their independence by revolution. A successful Marxist revolution had also been carried out in Cuba.Three years later, in early March 1963, three separate Canadian Army barracks – two in Montreal’s...
In 1904, agricultural speculators in Chicago issued a statement saying that the Canadian wheat crop was going to be terrible because rot got into the crop and the best anyone could hope for was 35 million bushels, about half of the usual output.This...