NHL Busher Jackson Today, Busher Jackson is relatively unknown in most hockey circles, but during his heyday, he was part of one of the NHL’s most dominant scoring trios. A force on the ice, he was a Stanley Cup champion, an All-Star and a scoring...
Montreal Gazette There are two hockey arenas in Canada that stand above all others. One is Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The other is the Montreal Forum. Both have seen an immense amount of history and been more than hockey arenas. They have been...
Associated Press In July 2024, I took my first trip to Ottawa to see the history of our capital city. Over the course of about six days, I visited some of Canada’s most prestigious museums. The Museum of History, the Canadian War Museum, the...
McCord Museum Think about the longest road trip you’ve ever taken Chances are, even if it was a long one, it was done in comfort. Air conditioning in the car. Plenty of coffee and drinks from stops along the way. Maybe a detour or two to see the...
Glenbow Archives No era in United States history has captured the imagination of generations more than the Wild West. From movies to television to books, it’s well documented in pop culture, and by extension, heavily fictionalized. When you think of...
Manitoba Historical Society Residents of Winnipeg huddled in their homes for safety as the city’s anti-aircraft defences shot at Nazi bombers flying overhead. Debris from explosions littered the streets as the Second World War arrived at the...
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives According to Spartacus Gay Travel Guide, Canada is the number one safest country in the world for 2SLGBTQ+ community, behind Iceland, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, and ahead of Spain, Denmark and the United...
North York Historical Society In the Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, spends nearly 20 years carving a hole in the wall of his cell beneath a poster of Rita Hayworth and later, Raquel Welch. That was fiction, but...
Library and Archives Canada 156,000 Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of France in the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the year-long process of liberating Western Europe from the clutches of Nazi Germany. Planned under...
Musee McCord Stewart Founded on May 2, 1670, The Hudson’s Bay Company has existed for over 350 years and has played a massive role in Canada’s history. Even the city I live in, Edmonton, was originally a Hudson’s Bay Company fort over 200 years ago...