The Indigenous Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the location that would be LaSalle was inhabited by the Indigenous for centuries. Thanks to its location next to the river and near the Great Lakes, it was a popular spot to camp, meet and hunt. The...
My original plan was to have an episode about the war effort and propaganda, but I realized that coming off the war effort at home, there would be a lot of similarities, so I decided to push that episode down a little, and instead focus on something...
Forest fires are nothing new in Canada these days, and right now we are dealing with several terrible ones in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. The forest fires of the past, while often not as large, were much more deadly and...
Last week, I talked about John Bracken, a former premier who became the Leader of the Progressive Conservatives from 1943 to 1948. Today, we have another premier, George Drew, who served as the premier of Ontario during the same years Bracken led...
The route through the prairies for the Canadian Pacific Railway may seem as though it’s a natural path to take, along the southern part of the country, close to the United States border but that was not the original plan. When plans were first put...
The community of Drayton Valley is unique among the towns that I have looked at on this podcast. While some towns have at least a century of history behind them, Drayton Valley is relatively new, only becoming a village in 1953. As a result, this...
Indigenous History Long before the arrival of Europeans, the land that would be Fort Frances was inhabited by the Saulteaux or Anishinaabeg people. Nearby to Fort Frances was the traditional meeting place for the regional Anishinaabeg and during the...
Today, we are traveling back home to Canada to look at the war effort in Canada. Primarily I will be focusing on the things regular citizens, with help from the government, did to aid the war effort and help soldiers overseas. In 1914, as war fever...
Canada has had several literary celebrities that have made a name for themselves internationally. There has been Robert Munsch, Farley Mowat, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. Arguably the first...
John Bracken The last episode, I looked at Gordon Graydon, the man who was the Leader of the Official Opposition, but who did not lead his actual party. The party leader was another man named John Bracken. Bracken had become leader of the...