Mr. Dressup, Casey & Finnegan late 60s He is a Canadian we all know and love. He is the man who taught us about sharing, crafts, singing and kindness. While his real name is Ernie Coombs, to millions of Canadians he is simply Mr. Dressup. Today...
Indigenous and Early History The first people to live in the area are believed to be the Assiniboine and Stoney people who came from the area of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Most often, they would follow the bison herds that moved through the area in...
The Indigenous people who lived in the future Atlantic Provinces were the first to deal with the changing world of European arrival. A century or more before those changes reached the people of the prairies, the Mi’kmaq, Abenaki, Maliseet, and...
Among Inuit in the last half of the 20th century, few had as big of an impact on the day-to-day lives of the Inuit than a man by the name of Abraham Okpik. An activist, he would spend his life working for the people of the north, giving them a voice...
