In the Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, spends nearly 20 years carving a hole in the wall of his cell beneath a poster of Rita Hayworth and later, Raquel Welch. That was fiction, but what if I told you that a Toronto gang...
LAC PA-137013 156,000 Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of France in the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the year-long process of liberating Western Europe from the clutches of Nazi Germany. Planned under the code name...
Founded on May 2, 1670, The Hudson’s Bay Company has existed for over 350 years and has played a massive role in Canada’s history. Even the city I live in, Edmonton, was originally a Hudson’s Bay Company fort over 200 years ago. A lot of men have...
This land is beautiful. The sound located on the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island with stunning vistas was even name-dropped in The Maple Leaf Forever, an unofficial national anthem of English-speaking Canada for a time. It feels like a place far...
If you are like me, hearing the opening notes of that theme song instantly takes you back to your childhood, sitting in front of the family’s television. It’s a nostalgic feeling that’s so good…. well, just put in an IV and shoot it straight to my...
For the last twenty years he had been someone else’s property. Ripped from his home as a teenager, he was taken and then enslaved in North America. With no say in what happened to him, he was put to work in the house as a servant. That seemed like a...
Two teams, one from New Jersey, and one from Montreal met on a beautiful spring day in New Jersey in 1946 to open their baseball season. Hoping to impress his coaches, a new player for Montreal walked up to the plate to the sound of 52,000 fans in...
The rain was heavy over Quebec City on Sept. 18, 1889. For hours, it fell and turned alleys into muddy bogs and caused more than a few residents to place pots under leaking roofs. The deluge fell over the impressive Quebec Citadel, a defensive...
In the movie Forrest Gump, the title character had a habit of appearing during pivotal moments in American history during the latter-half of the 20th century.What if I told you that Canada had a real person with that same habit?The day they drove...
It is the early-1970s. You are sitting in front of the television watching MAS*H when the show goes to commercial.Video clips of people affected by starvation and disease in a Developing Country appear on your screen.The voice of a woman with a...