NHL/Hockey Hall of Fame For 60 minutes he had been impenetrable. Only one puck by the Montreal Canadiens had made it past him. He had stopped 40 others. It was an incredible feat for a man many believed was a decade past his prime. He was middle...
Bank of Canada Museum Picture this… it’s 1685. You are standing in a settlement on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. It is cold. The wind cuts through your coat as you enter a log building. Somewhere nearby, a soldier is complaining about his pay...
Library and Archives Canada He was drenched in sweat. His sweater stuck to him, as his chest heaved from deep breaths. The crowd roared, when he stepped onto the ice as he had so many times before. He had been months away from celebrating his 40th...
Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador The wind blew fast across St. John’s, Newfoundland on a hot summer afternoon. It was a day like any other. Until it wasn’t. At a barn atop Carter’s Hill, a lit pipe, placed too close to the edge of a...
Daily Hive John Herbert had a gift for the written word. As an 18-year-old in the 1940s, he put that talent to work in the advertising department at Eaton’s What his coworkers at the department store didn’t know was that Herbert liked to wear...
David Grant Noble I am not a fan of skyscrapers. When I was in Toronto in 2024, I kept my eyes fixed on the ground. I stayed at the Sheraton and the first thing I did when I got to my room on the 28th floor was close my curtains. I did my best to...
For the first 30 years that Newfoundland existed as a province in Canada, it had only two premiers. In 1979, after the resignation of Frank Moores, it was time for a new man to step into the top job.That man was Brian Peckford.Brian Peckford was...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at The Trans-Canada Pipeline was not only an engineering feat that would change the economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan, but it would also fundamentally alter Canadian politics in the 1950s and...
Support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at In terms of great prime ministers, there are those who made their mark, those who didn’t and those who could have if circumstances were different. Sir John Sparrow David Thompson definitely falls into...
When you think about shipwrecks, chances are you don’t think about Medicine Hat, or Alberta at all really. Well, the truth is that Alberta has its own shipwreck and it comes in the story of the steamboat Lily. In 1877, the Lily, a 100-foot...