Follow Craig Baird as he explores the good, the bad and the weird of Canada's history from the pre-c
It is the most famous Arctic Expedition in history. Two ships went into the ice with over 120 men. N
Violet King was descendant from Black Americans who fled segregation in the United States, and then
Charles Tomkins grew up speaking Cree and English. That bilingual skill would aid him in his life wh
Part of a prominent Canadian family, Dr. Norman Bethune revolutionized battlefield medicine while he
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On April 29, 1903 at 4:10 a.m., 30 million cubic metres, equaling 110 million tonnes, of limestone r
For her entire adult life, Madeleine Parent fought for workers right in Quebec and elsewhere in Cana
After the Frog Lake Massacre and the North West Resistance, eight Indigenous men were arrested and p
The Doukhobors came to Canada at the turn of the 20th century, and were welcomed with open arms by C
From the day it was formed, for the next eight decades and counting, the National Film Board of Cana
In August 1934, the head of Labatt, John Labatt, was driving to the office from his cottage. He sudd
Aug. 9, 1988 is a day that will live in infamy in Edmonton and Canada, but the day Wayne Gretzky was
**This is a bonus episode provided by Knockabout Media, rather than Canadian History Ehx**He became
In 1992, a show unlike any other debuted on CBC, and for the next five years it changed Canadian tel
Decades before her fellow members of the Famous Five began their women's rights work, Henrietta Edwa
David Thompson is my favourite Canadian historical figure, but there is another person who is part o
From our first satellite in the early 1960s, to our role in the moon landing to the iconic Canadarm,
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