Canada has had several literary celebrities that have made a name for themselves internationally. There has been Robert Munsch, Farley Mowat, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013. Arguably the first...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at The last episode, I looked at Gordon Graydon, the man who was the Leader of the Official Opposition, but who did not lead his actual party. The party leader was another man named John Bracken...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at The Canadian West was an open landscape with few settlements, but the Canadian government wanted to change that. The Indigenous had occupied the landscape for millennia, shaping it and being...
Williams Lake currently lies within the traditional territory of the Secwepemc (suh-wep-muh) territory. Evidence of Indigenous habitation in the region dates back at least 4,000 years, with some estimates going back as far as 6,500 years. The region...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at It was one of the darkest chapters in the history of the Canadian West, but from that would come an iconic symbol of Canada. At the same time, the outlaw nature of the Wild West of America...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Following Richard Hanson, a new man would come into the role of the Leader of Opposition, and like Hanson, he too was not the leader of his party. Gordon Graydon would serve as the leader of...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at A few episodes back I talked about the Pacific Scandal, an incident which effectively delayed the railroad for at least five years and ended the first incarnation of the Canadian Pacific...
The verified history of the Indigenous in the Melita area goes back not just centuries, but thousands of years. There is evidence of prolonged habitation that dates back as far as 800 AD. Located south of Melita, there are two very important sites...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at When looking at Canada in the First World War, the pictures tend to tell the story of white Canadians fighting in battles. The stories of the soldiers also focus on white Canadians, but there...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Robin Williams said that Canada is a loft apartment over a great party. That may be true. We can tend to be a quiet bunch. Especially compared with our neighbours to the south, who aren’t...