UPI—Bettmann/Corbis Support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Callander, Ontario was a small and quiet community in central Ontario, 280 kilometres north of Toronto.On May 27, 1934, if you asked someone outside the area about it, most couldn’t...
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the home of the President of the United States.10 Downey Street, the home of the UK’s Prime Minister.24 Sussex, home to Canada’s Prime Minister.Or at least it was.Today, it is home to far too many corpses of rodents in...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Before I begin, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the episode you are about to hear was recorded on Treaty 6 Land.And a quick warning, some language used to describe Indigenous...
By 1960, 17 African nations had obtained their independence by revolution. A successful Marxist revolution had also been carried out in Cuba.Three years later, in early March 1963, three separate Canadian Army barracks – two in Montreal’s...
Archives of Manitoba In 1904, agricultural speculators in Chicago issued a statement saying that the Canadian wheat crop was going to be terrible because rot got into the crop and the best anyone could hope for was 35 million bushels, about half of...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at The American Revolutionary War took place from 1775 to 1783. During that time 3,000 Black Loyalists fled New York for Nova Scotia.Upon arrival, they were given freedom, land and supplies by the...
Donate to Canadian History Ehx at the late-1800s, an Inuk man and his family left their home in Labrador, hoping to make enough money to pay off debts and have a better life.Their journey took them to Europe, where they would be expected to tour the...
Library and Archives Canada You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Long before Europeans arrived on Canadian shores, canoes were the primary mode of quick transportation for Indigenous Peoples across the continent.Later, French fur...
Support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at was a day that changed Quebec forever.On a cold January day in 1927, a couple hundred children attended the film Get ‘Em Young at the Laurier Palace Theatre in Montreal.A cigarette was tossed...
Support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at I’ve lived in Alberta for most of my life, except for a few years in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.I would like to move away from Alberta one day.Don’t get me wrong, it is a nice province with...