You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at After a tumultuous year in 1885, things would slow down a bit in 1886 as Canada moved into the second half of the 1880s. On Jan. 15, Clarence Howe is born in the United States, but would come...
In June 1886, Vancouver was only two months old and quickly growing to become one of the most important cities in Canada, and eventually, the world. Then, all that progress was suddenly ripped away as the dreaded foe of every early community in...