As Canada moved through the 1870s, it would see more growth and continued changes as the new nation found its feet. So, let’s look at the year that was 1871 in Canada. On Jan. 30, Wilfred Lucas was born in Norfolk County, Ontario. He would...
The Canadian West was an open landscape with few settlements, but the Canadian government wanted to change that. The Indigenous had occupied the landscape for millennia, shaping it and being shaped by it. Things began to change when fur traders...