Library of Congress This land is beautiful. The sound located on the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island with stunning vistas was even name-dropped in The Maple Leaf Forever, an unofficial national anthem of English-speaking Canada for a time. It...
If you are like me, hearing the opening notes of that theme song instantly takes you back to your childhood, sitting in front of the family’s television. It’s a nostalgic feeling that’s so good…. well, just put in an IV and shoot it straight to my...
Parks Canada For the last twenty years he had been someone else’s property. Ripped from his home as a teenager, he was taken and then enslaved in North America. With no say in what happened to him, he was put to work in the house as a servant. That...
Associated Press Two teams, one from New Jersey, and one from Montreal met on a beautiful spring day in New Jersey in 1946 to open their baseball season. Hoping to impress his coaches, a new player for Montreal walked up to the plate to the sound of...
The rain was heavy over Quebec City on Sept. 18, 1889. For hours, it fell and turned alleys into muddy bogs and caused more than a few residents to place pots under leaking roofs. The deluge fell over the impressive Quebec Citadel, a defensive...
Library and Archives Canada In the movie Forrest Gump, the title character had a habit of appearing during pivotal moments in American history during the latter-half of the 20th century.What if I told you that Canada had a real person with that same...
SeedChange It is the early-1970s. You are sitting in front of the television watching MAS*H when the show goes to commercial.Video clips of people affected by starvation and disease in a Developing Country appear on your screen.The voice of a woman...
The Viking film still Making films can be a dangerous business. Since the 1910s there’s been a death every decade on a Hollywood film set. The first occurred in 1914 when actress Grace McHugh and camera operator Owen Carter, drowned in the Arkansas...
Paulo Coelho, wrote in his 1988 international best-selling novel The Alchemist, quote. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” As we...
Painting by Joseph Légaré Have you ever wondered how Ottawa became Canada’s capital rather than Montreal which was the largest and most populous city at the time? In 1857, Queen Victoria chose the small lumber town as the new capital of the Province...