After a tumultuous year in 1885, things would slow down a bit in 1886 as Canada moved into the second half of the 1880s. On Jan. 15, Clarence Howe is born in the United States, but would come to Nova Scotia as a young man to become a professor at...
On Jan. 2, the Humber Railway Disaster would occur, with 32 men and boys being killed in a head-on collision of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train near Toronto. A young man by the name of Goodwood would see the...
Through the 20th century, Indigenous men and women began to break down barriers that had been put up over decades by governments and organizations. From becoming senators, soldiers, Members of Parliament and more, I have featured several on my...