A young Indigenous man from Grouard, Alberta, enlisted to fight in the Second World War and he just received a secret summons from the Canadian High Command in London. Confused, he asked his superior officers about it but they were oblivious as well...
Over the course of his life, Oronhyatekha did many things. He was a scholar, a CEO, a statesman, an athlete and a champion of women, children and minority rights. Today, I am looking at this fascinating man who was known as Burning Sky, Burning...
Little known today, Nahnebahnwequay was an Indigenous activist who spent her life fighting for land rights for the Indigenous before Canada was even a country. Born in 1824 at Credit River Flats, Upper Canada, she was given the name Nahnebahnwequay...
Not many Indigenous leaders can say they have met with the King of England, but the man they called Joe Capilano can claim that and he did it for his people. Joe Capilano was born around 1854 near Squamish, British Columbia. At birth, his name was...
Among Inuit in the last half of the 20th century, few had as big of an impact on the day-to-day lives of the Inuit than a man by the name of Abraham Okpik. An activist, he would spend his life working for the people of the north, giving them a voice...
A shout-out to the podcast Minute Women. If you grew up in the 1990s in Canada, then you likely saw plenty of Heritage Minutes. The Heritage Minutes touted parts of our heritage, and themselves, became a part of our cultural heritage. Well, this...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at There may be a misconception today that the Indigenous lived in teepees across Canada, were nomadic and did not live in large communities. This, to put it simply, is quite false. From what...
If you ask someone what the national sport of Canada is, nine times out of ten they are going to say hockey. They aren’t wrong, but they aren’t completely right either. In fact, Canada has two national sports. Our winter national sport is hockey...
It is the most powerful earthquake to occur in Canada in the past 1,000 years, and it would have an impact not only in what is now Canada and the United States, but across the ocean as well. Earthquakes along the B.C. coast are nothing new. In fact...
