City of Toronto Archives During the summer of 2025, I drove 6,000 kilometres around western Canada. I visited the World’s Largest Beaver in Beaverlodge, stood on the Canada-US border at the International Peace Garden, walked along The Great Wall of...
Glenbow Archives The stars glistened above him, only slightly overshadowed by the glare of the moon. In the distance, he could hear the coyotes howl but the sound was drowned out by thousands of cattle wandering north. His plan was to return to the...
Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village Museum One solitary figure struggled where the wide-open sky meets the horizon that seems to go on forever. He slowly pulled an unexpected structure leaving him drenched in sweat under the unrelenting Saskatchewan...
Hockey Hall of Fame Not only was Syl Apps one of the greatest players of his era, but he was also an Olympian and a Member of the Provincial Parliament in Ontario. To many, he was the Jean Beliveau of English Speaking Canada. A life well lived. And...
Library and Archives Canada As a child, he was stricken with a disease that left him bedridden for months. When he recovered, his growth was stunted, and his back was curved. Luckily, his family was wealthy. He could have coasted and lived a life of...
Library and Archives Canada Frances Ann Ellis stood on the ship, staring out at the water as the British Isles faded over the horizon behind her. She was only 13, and she was leaving the only home she had ever known. It had not been a good one. In...
*TO HEAR MY TOUR GUIDES AT THE MUSEUM, LISTEN TO THE EPISODE AS IT FEATURES CLIPS 🙂 * One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone says that Canada doesn’t have much of a history. I am understandably annoyed as I have made it my entire career and...
On Jan. 13, Igor Gouzenko was born in Russia near Moscow. In school, he did well in his academic performance. This gained him training as a cipher clerk. Drafted into the Red Army, he was sent to Ottawa in 1943 to work at the Soviet Embassy...
What can be said about the New Year that hasn’t been said a thousand times? The new ones come; the old ones go. As we close this year out, we can think back to some of the milestones we celebrated like… One hundred years of the Royal Canadian Air...
We have hit another major year in Canada’s history. This one saw many changes come to Canada, and the end of a devastating war. On Jan. 28, John McCrae died of pneumonia. Born in 1872, McCrae graduated from medical school in 1898 and began teaching...