About two hours northeast of Edmonton, is the town of Elk Point. You wouldn’t know it to look at it, but this small community of 1,300 people has a deep history dating back to the 1790s when both the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company...
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...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at It was one of the most infectious and feared diseases in human history. The disease dates back thousands of years with evidence of it showing in Egyptian mummies. Hundreds of millions of people...
When Europeans arrived in the 1500s, it began to have an immense impact on the Indigenous cultures in what would one day be Canada. Beginning on the east coast and moving west over the century, cultures would see significant change as Europeans...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at No company in Canada’s history, not Eaton’s, not Molson’s, not Air Canada, has had a bigger impact on our history than the Hudson’s Bay Company. It is a company that would occupy the lands that...