The century is nearly drawing to a close, but we have a couple years to go first. Today, we are diving into 1898 and the births, deaths and events that happened in Canada that year. The March 1, Ontario election would bring about monumental changes...
On Jan. 2, Thomas McGreevy died in Quebec City at the age of 71. Born in that same city on July 29, 1825, he would serve as an MP from 1867 to 1891 and from 1895 to 1896. That gap was because he was expelled from the House of Commons for corruption...
Today, we enter into the second half of the last decade of the 19th century and it was a big one for Canada in several ways. As usual, I will go through the important events, births and deaths that came in this year. On Feb. 1, the first copper...