The 120-year-old Knox Presbyterian church building at the Carstairs Heritage Centre has been designated a municipal historic resource. The Blackfoot were the primary Indigenous group that occupied the area that would become Carstairs. Long before...
Few individuals in the First World War have been as romanticized as the pilots who took to the air. The Flying Aces as they were known took a new form of warfare and became icons, celebrities and heroes. The most famous Flying Ace of them all was...
My original plan was to have an episode about the war effort and propaganda, but I realized that coming off the war effort at home, there would be a lot of similarities, so I decided to push that episode down a little, and instead focus on something...
Today, we are traveling back home to Canada to look at the war effort in Canada. Primarily I will be focusing on the things regular citizens, with help from the government, did to aid the war effort and help soldiers overseas. In 1914, as war fever...
The past three episodes we have primarily looked at what was happening in Canada over the course of the first few months of the First World War, but today we are diving into the first major battle to feature the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the...
Today, I continue my journey through the battles of the First World War involving Canadians and once again we come to a battle that inflicted terrible losses on Canadian troops, all for barely any gain in ground. Today, I look at the Actions at St...
Today on the podcast, I am going to look at the life of one individual who definitely made his mark on Canada. He is the most decorated First Nations soldier in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of the First World War. He is...
Support the podcast at www.patreon.com/canadaehx Listen to this episode on my podcast Canadian History Ehx With Remembrance Day only a few days away, I thought that my focus for Small Town Hockey Heroes should be on a hockey player who fought for...
Support the podcast and page for as little as $1 a month: the Canadian history chat on Discord: on iTunes to the podcast (many bonus features) right here Born in England in 1896, Walter Ashfield was remembered as a fantastic editor, held in high...
Support the podcast and page for as little as $1 a month: Join the Canadian history chat on Discord: Subscribe on iTunes to the podcast (many bonus features) right here W.P. Loggie was born on April 29, 1891 in Chatham, New...