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Stan Rogers

Guysborough County, located along the coast of Nova Scotia is a fascinating place. Home to the Mi’kmaq people for centuries, then to Black Loyalists who fled the United States during the Revolutionary War. you will find miners, forestry workers...

The Whiskey War

For 40 years, a war waged over a very small island, far to the north, beyond any permanently inhabited settlement. If you stood in the middle of it, you could see Canada’s Ellesmere Island on one side, and Greenland on the other. Every few years...

Ottawa-Hull Fire of 1900

It was a beautiful spring morning in Hull, Quebec on April 26, 1900. The sun was shining, the leaves were emerging on trees and birds were chirping to welcome the new season after a long winter. But there was still a chill in the air, causing many...

Lorne Greene

[INTRO] He has been hired by the national broadcaster to bring Canadian updates on what was happening overseas. The Second World War was raging in Europe, and many tuned in to listen for loved ones’ names as the announcer read out the list of...

Robert Atkinson Davis

We have now reached our fourth premier of Manitoba, and the province is only four years old. That is a lot of premiers in a very short amount of time. This premier would be the first to serve more than two years, and the first to go through an...

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