It’s a quiet Saturday night in 1979. Residents in Mississauga, Ontario are asleep. The next day is expected to be quiet for the thousands that live there. Many would be looking forward to a nice breakfast with families, maybe some time with a...
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...
In the first decade of Saskatchewan’s existence, there was only one premier, Thomas Walter Scott, but in the next decade, there were two. The first was William Melville Martin, and the second is the person we are covering today, Charles Avery...
Patrick Joseph Alexander Moran was born on March 11, 1877 in Quebec City. Moran didn’t start playing hockey until he was 15, when he started to suit up for his local team. Before long, he found he had an intense love for the game and was a very good...
It is the spookiest time of the year, when ghouls and goblins come out of the shadows to spread a bit of fear. It’s when we curl up on the couch to watch a scary movie or dress up for a costume party. And in a country as large as Canada, with a long...
On Jan. 11, Fort Vermilion, Alberta recorded the coldest temperature in North America’s history to that point with a temperature of -61.2 degrees Celsius. That record was later broken on Feb. 3, 1947 in Snag, Yukon when that area recorded a...
After the resignation of Saskatchewan’s first premier, a new man took the top job, William Melville Martin. Martin was born in Norwich, Ontario on Aug. 23, 1876. As a child, he was educated at Exeter Public School and Clinton Collegiate. When he...
Chubby Power Usually when I cover a hockey player on here, their greatest success was in hockey. Then there are people like Chubby Power. He was a star hockey player. A war hero. A Parliamentarian and Cabinet Minister. And a Senator. A lot of life...
There have been many sports heroes to come from The Great White North. There are of course, the hockey greats like Wayne Gretzky, Hayley Wickenheiser and Gordie Howe. But there are many others. Bobbie Rosenfeld. George Chuvalo. Steve Nash. Christine...
On Jan. 12, the government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier introduced the Naval Service Act. This act established the Royal Canadian Navy as of May 4, 1910. Prior to the Act, Canada did not have any navy and relied on the support of the British Royal Navy...