We continue our look at each year through Canada’s history from Confederation to today with 1881. On January 2, Frederick Varley is born. He will become one of Canada’s iconic Group of Seven artists after he immigrates to Canada in 1912. Known as...
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 in New York before founding Keystone Studios in...