We are now moving into the last half of the first decade of the 1900s and all in all, it was a pretty quiet year. On Jan. 1, the Ouimetoscope opened in Montreal at the corner of Saint Catherine and Montcalm Streets. It was a 500-seat theatre with a...
Donate to Canadian History Ehx at We continue our look at each year through Canada’s history from Confederation to today with 1881. On January 2, Frederick Varley is born. He will become one of Canada’s iconic Group of Seven artists after he...


