5157266 Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh sporting a “ten gallon hat” watching the rodeo at Calgary during their tour of Canada, © Mirrorpix. As we are in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Year, many Canadians...
We have finally come to the end of the line in terms of Governors General who came from prominent families or institutions in Britain. After this episode, we will be delving into the Governors General who were born in Canada, or spent most of their...
We begin our trip through Canada’s history, year by year, in this first episode of Canada: A Yearly Journey. Each week, I will take us through a year in Canadian history, beginning with 1867 and continuing to today. A note on this episode, I begin...
This episode was a bit short, since White Star is a very small community. There are no small histories though, and I want to make sure every community in Canada gets featured, or at least a lot of them. For this episode though, I expanded out from...
Each year, 3,000 ships, carrying 40 million tons of cargo, pass through the Welland Canal. The canal would help Toronto become the largest city in Canada, while fostering increased trade on the Great Lakes between the United States and Canada. The...
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone 1940, by Yousuf Karsh After the sudden death of John Buchan, Canada was in need of a Governor General and quickly. At the time, Canada was deep in the Second World War as it emerged from The Great Depression...
For centuries, the Indigenous occupied the land that would one day be the Rural Municipality of Sifton. It was primarily the territory of the Cree and the Ojibwa, with the Sioux having the northern reaches of their territory into the area. Various...
For the season finale of season 2 of Canada’s Great War, I decided to do a bit of a different episode. I am going to cover letters home, that were printed in newspapers, from 1915 to 1916, so we can get an idea of what the soldiers were feeling...
Mossbank, Town of The area of Mossbank has been used extensively by the Indigenous of Canada. Dating back centuries, the Blackfoot and the Cree both occupied the territory, which was highly prized due to the vast bison herds that moved through the...
You may not recognize his name, but Elijah Harper was one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the latter-half of the 20th century. His impact was felt through his political and activist work, in which he always put the cause of the...