On Jan. 21, Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona, died. Born in Scotland, he became one of the foremost builders and philanthropists in the British Empire in his life. He served as the commissioner, governor and main shareholder of the Hudson’s Bay Company...
On March 7, Pauline Johnson died. Pauline Johnson was born on March 10, 1861 in the family home at the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. Born to an English mother and Mohawk father, she straddled both cultures throughout her life. A lover of books and...
After Charles Dunning moved on to federal politics in the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King, James Garfield Gardiner came along to assume the role of Saskatchewan’s fourth premier. Gardiner was born on Nov. 30, 1883 in South Huron, Ontario...
On Jan. 3, Louise Lapointe was born in Quebec. She was one of the first women to work as a professional journalist. She worked as a journalist throughout the 1940s and 1950s for various French-Canadian publications. In 1959, she joined the staff of...
On Jan. 11, Fort Vermilion, Alberta recorded the coldest temperature in North America’s history to that point with a temperature of -61.2 degrees Celsius. That record was later broken on Feb. 3, 1947 in Snag, Yukon when that area recorded a...
On Jan. 12, the government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier introduced the Naval Service Act. This act established the Royal Canadian Navy as of May 4, 1910. Prior to the Act, Canada did not have any navy and relied on the support of the British Royal Navy...
We have reached the last year of the first decade of the 20th century. The next decade is a massive one for Canada’s history, and 1909 was an important year to finish out that first decade. On Jan. 11, Great Britain and the United States signed the...
It was a very important year in Canada’s history, so let’s dive into 1907. On Jan. 23, the Kenora Thistles won the Stanley Cup by defeating the Montreal Wanderers in a two-game total goal series 12-8. This makes Kenora the smallest community to ever...
We are now moving into the last half of the first decade of the 1900s and all in all, it was a pretty quiet year. On Jan. 1, the Ouimetoscope opened in Montreal at the corner of Saint Catherine and Montcalm Streets. It was a 500-seat theatre with a...
