Making films can be a dangerous business. Since the 1910s there’s been a death every decade on a Hollywood film set. The first occurred in 1914 when actress Grace McHugh and camera operator Owen Carter, drowned in the Arkansas River while filming...
Paulo Coelho, wrote in his 1988 international best-selling novel The Alchemist, quote. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” As we...
Have you ever wondered how Ottawa became Canada’s capital rather than Montreal which was the largest and most populous city at the time? In 1857, Queen Victoria chose the small lumber town as the new capital of the Province of Canada. Over Montreal...
A bearded man sat in a small boat, waves gently lapping against the wooden hull.In the distance, he watched the last of his ship disappear over the horizon.Over a year ago he had left his home on a quest to find fame, fortune and the Northern...
You can support my Canadian history work with a donation at There have been some fantastic satirical Canadian comedy shows. SCTV. Kids in the Hall. The Baroness von Sketch Show. All of those shows are great. But… Only one did the following: got a...
At the end of March 2023, I used artificial intelligence to turn Canada’s prime ministers into 1980s hair metal singers and posted the results online.Amidst the responses many on social media were surprised at what some of the prime ministers looked...
Built by the White Star Line, it was the largest ship in the world at the time, because it was able to carry 1,317 passengers and 823 crew, from Europe to North America and back again. But…On her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, she struck an...
Long before explorers such as Anthony Henday, David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie or Lewis and Clark were born, there was a young man with a sense of adventure that took him to North America as an apprentice for the Hudson’s Bay Company. He was the...
Over the Top is a famous Canadian photograph from the First World War which features Canadian soldiers, climbing over a trench, guns at the ready as they head out into the field of battle against Germans. It is an impactful photograph. It is also...
In the words of the legendary Paul McCartney, The party’s on The feeling’s here That only comes, This time of year Simply having a wonderful Holiday history time! I may have changed some lyrics at the end, but you get the point. This is the time of...