You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at After talking about the first premier of British Columbia, John McCreight, a man who never wanted the job, we move on to one of the most famous men to ever hold the post of premier in the...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at A new decade dawns for Canada, its third decade, so let’s look into what happened in the year 1880 for Canada. On Jan. 17, Mack Sennett is born in Melbourne, Quebec. He would start making films...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Over the past two episodes, I have looked at the Chinese workers in British Columbia and the building of the Kicking Horse Pass portion of the railroad, but now I am going to look at building...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at A few episodes back I talked about the Pacific Scandal, an incident which effectively delayed the railroad for at least five years and ended the first incarnation of the Canadian Pacific...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at With the Pacific Scandal in the past, work would slowly begin on the transcontinental railway. While the majority of track would be built following Sir John A. Macdonald coming back into power...
One of the most influential individuals in the early history of Alberta and the prairies was a man by the name of Albert Lacombe. From his arrival in the area after becoming dissatisfied with Eastern Canada, to the day he died, he would work with...
It had taken some time but by 1890, the Calgary and Edmonton Railway Company was incorporated and ready to begin laying down track between the two communities. At the time, it was taking five days by stage coach to travel between the cities but with...