For centuries, the area that would become the Yukon was mostly ignored. It was a land that most people did not see any potential in. Before Europeans began to arrive in the area, the Indigenous would trade in copper nuggets and most of the tribes of...
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...
