If you ask someone what the national sport of Canada is, nine times out of ten they are going to say hockey. They aren’t wrong, but they aren’t completely right either. In fact, Canada has two national sports. Our winter national sport is hockey...
Canada has had many amazing Indigenous leaders who have worked to help their people in the face of growing European settlement. One of the most important Indigenous leaders in Canadian history, especially in the latter-part of the 19th century, was...
When Europeans began to arrive in North America, they did more than spread disease and claim land that they did not discover. They also upset the balance of power among the Indigenous people, in addition to the economy of the land through the demand...
The fur trade was the major industry of the 17th, 18th and part of the 19th century in Canada. It would alter the economics of the continent and the Indigenous who lived here. For many, it allowed the chiefs to become major political figures in what...
Today on the podcast, I am going to look at the life of one individual who definitely made his mark on Canada. He is the most decorated First Nations soldier in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of the First World War. He is...
The Bison, or buffalo as they are sometimes called, once dominated the landscape of the Canadian Prairies. For thousands upon thousands of years, they roamed the prairies in numbers as high as 30 million. Why don’t we have millions roaming across...
It is well documented that the Vikings arrived in North America five centuries before Europeans began to arrive in droves. The Vikings and their time in North America were brief, but it forms an interesting look into a culture from the Western...
Support the history page for as little as $1 a month: Join the Canadian history chat on Discord: Canada has had its fair share of amazing athletes, and many have gone on to represent us well. Whether it is in sports like hockey...