Glenbow Archives Blackflies hung around her in the damp air, as branches tore at her clothes. The mosquitoes engorging themselves on her blood were mere annoyances as she navigated through the northern bush, She was only focused on one thing. Her...
Photo from John Moses She held the soldier’s hand. Only months earlier, he had been full of life as he longed to serve his country. Now he was on his deathbed in a front-line hospital in France. He had a gruesome wound but over the next few weeks...
Globe and Mail In April 1823, a group of Newfoundland fur trappers encountered three women at Badger Bay who were in starving conditions. They had journeyed from the island’s interior in search of mussels. Two of the women died shortly after...
Library and Archives Canada A few months ago, on one of my weekly trips to find treasures at local thrift stores, I stumbled upon a gold mine. A box set of every episode and TV movie of Columbo. If you aren’t familiar with the show, it features...
On Jan. 22, Bill Durnan was born in Toronto. He entered the NHL at the age of 27 and only played in seven seasons but he became one of the greatest NHL players in history. As a goalie, he played his entire career with the Montreal Canadiens from...
Library of Congress This land is beautiful. The sound located on the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island with stunning vistas was even name-dropped in The Maple Leaf Forever, an unofficial national anthem of English-speaking Canada for a time. It...
NWT Archives (Harry Palmer) 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...
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...
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...
Donate to Canadian History Ehx at the late-1800s, an Inuk man and his family left their home in Labrador, hoping to make enough money to pay off debts and have a better life.Their journey took them to Europe, where they would be expected to tour the...