On Jan. 3, Louise Lapointe was born in Quebec. She was one of the first women to work as a professional journalist. She worked as a journalist throughout the 1940s and 1950s for various French-Canadian publications. In 1959, she joined the staff of...
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...
The elections of the 1870s had plenty going for them. Huge scandals that brought down a government, people announcing their votes rather than using a secret ballot and plenty of shady dealings. In contrast, the election of 1882 was quite benign, and...
Support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at I had originally planned to do an episode in which I look at my own ranking of the prime ministers of Canada, but I realized that its subjective and my own ranking of the prime ministers won’t be the...