As Canada marched through the first part of its second decade, the country began to expand and face several challenges unlike anything it had seen before. Let’s begin our look at Canada in 1873. On Jan. 10, George Orton was born. He would go on to...
There is a common misconception that Sir John A. Macdonald was elected as Canada’s first PM when Canada became a country on July 1. In fact, he was chosen by the Governor General at the time to lead the country, and the first election in Canadian...
Largely unknown today, the scandal that erupted in 1872 completely altered Canada and was one of the biggest stories of the last half of the 19th century for the new country. Called the Pacific Scandal, it would bring down the government, end...