She was a celebrated actress, a nurse, the wife of a millionaire, and also a resistance fighter who fought against the Nazis during the Second World War, proving herself to be capable, brave and someone to be reckoned with. Her name was Mona Parsons...
To find a Conservative prime minister who served longer then Stephen Harper, you have to go back all the way to Sir John A. Macdonald. The only Conservative Party of Canada leader to become prime minister so far, Harper helped take Canada from the...
The Indigenous For centuries, the Indigenous lived in the area of Spruce Grove, moving through with the seasons depending on the game that was in the area. The Cree occupied much of the land, as did the Sarcee people long before Europeans began to...
Over the course of this podcast series, I will not look in depth at the various regiments and battalions that took part in the war often. Of course, with this second episode of the show, I feel I cannot continue without looking at the first group of...
It is one of the most recognizable structures not only in Canada, but worldwide. The CN Tower is something many Canadians feel pride over, but what was involved in its construction? Today, I am looking at the building at the structure that was once...
Following the retirement of Jean Chretien, Paul Martin came in as the 21st prime minister of Canada during a time when Canada was going through several changes as a culture and on the political landscape as well. Paul Martin is the example of a...
The Indigenous For thousands of years, the area around Fort St. John was the traditional territory of the Dane-zaa Indigenous. Archeological evidence conducted in the area has found that there was an Indigenous settlement in the area dating back at...
Covering the First World War is no easy task. There are thousands of lives to look at, hundreds of important events and more. For the first episode of this podcast, I obviously wanted to start at the beginning. So, I am going to look at the first...
