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'An amazing and horrible history': Remembering the Waterford Hospital | CBC News People who've lived and worked at the Waterford Hospital in St. John's say it has a complicated history of pain and recovery, sharing deeply disturbing stories of abuse, powerful memories of caring…

'An amazing and horrible history': Remembering the Waterford Hospital

More than a department store: The long, complicated legacy behind Hudson’s Bay Company Like the beaver it nearly wiped out, HBC made Canada into its home by fundamentally transforming its environment, and no bankruptcy court will liquidate that legacy.

More than a department store: The long, complicated legacy behind Hudson’s Bay Company

A Supreme Sesquicentennial: The Upper Chamber’s high court connections Canada’s Supreme Court turns 150 in April 2025. The country’s highest court of appeal shares many connections with the Senate, from its origins to its role

A Supreme Sesquicentennial: The Upper Chamber’s high court connections

Here's why I've spent 8 months reporting on a 1930s wrongful conviction - Halifax Examiner The story of Daniel Sampson is the origin story both of policing in Nova Scotia and of how Black people in particular are policed.

Here's why I've spent 8 months reporting on a 1930s wrongful conviction

This former prime minister provides today’s voters with a cautionary tale John Diefenbaker found out quickly that being an effective opposition leader where he could simply criticize and oppose was far different than governing.

This former prime minister provides today’s voters with a cautionary tale

As it seeks sale, Hudson’s Bay mulls fate of trove of art, artifacts, including 1670 charter Some of the company’s collection could be up for sale, while archivists are hoping artifacts like the charter end up in a public collection

As it seeks sale, Hudson’s Bay mulls fate of trove of art, artifacts, including 1670 charter

Notre histoire en archives : traditions et délices de Pâques - CHRONIQUEURS - estrieplus.com | Journal Web | Sherbrooke | Estrie. Après les froids d’hiver, le printemps s’installe doucement et avec lui arrive la fête de Pâques. Symbole de la résurrection de Jésus pour les chrétiens, Pâques est une occasion parfaite pour…

Notre histoire en archives : traditions et délices de Pâques

Saskatchewan has not always been a conservative stronghold | CBC News Saskatchewan has been solidly conservative for decades, at least at the federal level, but historian Bill Waiser says the province wasn't always Tory blue.

Saskatchewan has not always been a conservative stronghold

The University of Vimy Ridge: USask on the front lines - News As Canada prepares to commemorate Vimy Ridge Day on Wednesday, April 9, On Campus News takes a look at how one faculty member from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) brought a little part of the…

The University of Vimy Ridge: USask on the front lines

Princeton Museum looks to decipher mysterious shorthand of donated journal Goodfellow's grandson will help the museum decode the unusual shorthand

Princeton Museum looks to decipher mysterious shorthand of donated journal

The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school | CBC News The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard very little about Agnes Benn, a teen girl who died near a Manitoba residential school in 1930, and the multiple sex abuse charges faced by the school's…

The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school

Creating Nunavut … step by step Congratulations to the people of Nunavut and the leaders who forged the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and its companion Nunavut Act, which created the territory on April 1, 1999.

Creating Nunavut … step by step

1000 Voices, 1000 Stories Episode 011: Beth Atcheson YouTube video by The Women's History Project

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Just dropped!

Amazing conversation, #BethAtcheson is so thoughtful and full of insight.

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#ElbowsUp: Why have Canadians chosen hockey as the symbol of our national unity? | CBC News From boos to beer cans, one of Canada's cultural touchstones has become part of a national rallying cry.

#ElbowsUp: Why have Canadians chosen hockey as the symbol of our national unity?

After 120 Years Stored in a Museum, an Indigenous Shrine Returns Home Taken from a First Nation community in Canada, the shrine recently began a more than 3,000-mile journey back from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

After 120 Years Stored in a Museum, an Indigenous Shrine Returns Home

Once a bustling rail line, a Moncton path tells a former railway's story | CBC News Walking through Irishtown Nature Park, on the northern edge of Moncton, the winding path suddenly straightens out. According to historian and Roadside History columnist James Upham, it isn’t a…

Once a bustling rail line, a Moncton path tells a former railway's story

Baseball's Unknown History in Ontario | TVO Today William Humber's latest book "Old Ontario at Bat: Baseball's Unheralded Ancestry" explores baseball's independent growth and development in the province of Ontario.

Baseball's Unknown History in Ontario

The right to remember the past: Opening Chinese immigration records in Canada’s national archives “C.I.30 certificate of Dere Mee Gim.” The Paper Trail collection, UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Courtesy of the Dar Woon Family.…

In today’s post June Chow looks at Chinese Canadian immigration through archives, community memory, and the right to remember.

Over 2,000 Scottish historical letters were stolen. They were found in Canada | CBC Radio A Scottish archivist embarked on a decades-long quest to figure out who stole thousands of historical letters, with the trail leading him to Canada.

Over 2,000 Scottish historical letters were stolen. They were found in Canada

A Canadian blend: long underwear and politics Imagine you are in 1916, tucked into your warm bed when, ugh, you need to go to the bathroom.

A Canadian blend: long underwear and politics

How the rich captured a Canadian prime minister: Part II New archival details about the identities of Mackenzie King's benefactors

A new substack from me: Part II of how the ultra-wealthy captured a prime minister with a secret fund, creating the Order of the Guinea. A cautionary tale.
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How the rich captured a Canadian prime minister: Part I New archival details about a secret funds for William Lyon Mackenzie King

New substack from me: the inside story of how the mega-rich bought a Canadian prime minister. New details unearthed from the archives.
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Laurier’s People Make History lecture series returns with March 26 panel on Canada-U.S. relations Featuring Professor Lara Campbell from Simon Fraser University; Tim Cook, chief historian and director of research at the Canadian War Museum; and Asa McKercher, Steven K. Hudson Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at St. Francis Xavier University

Wilfrid Laurier University’s People Make History lecture series returns with March 26 panel on Canada-U.S. relations, featuring Lara Campbell from Simon Fraser University; Tim Cook from the Canadian War Museum; and Asa McKercher from St. Francis Xavier University

Why did Canada switch to metric? Here's what Canadians thought of switching to metric decades ago as we look back on why it happened in the first place.00:00 - The big picture01:04 - Canada'...

Why did Canada switch to metric?

Tech-utopian, conspiracist and apartheid fan: Elon Musk’s grandpa was shaped by Canadian politics Joshua Haldeman became politically active after losing his Saskatchewan farm during the ‘Dirty Thirties.’

Tech-utopian, conspiracist and apartheid fan: Elon Musk’s grandpa was shaped by Canadian politics

Geoff Russ: Diefenbaker was a victim of foreign interference — just like Canada today Bad actors do, in fact, have great interest in Canadian elections. That's as true now as it was in the 1960s

Diefenbaker was a victim of foreign interference — just like Canada today

Vancouver Island marmot remains teach us about human history – The Discourse. The Vancouver Island marmot species is nearly extinc, but K'ómoks First Nation and the Marmot Recovery Foundation are uncovering its history.

Vancouver Island marmot remains teach us about human history

Toronto’s affordable housing crisis déjà vu - Spacing Toronto The lack of housing was so acute in Toronto in 1944 that the acting mayor, Robert H. Saunders, posted notices in newspapers warning families not to move to Toronto. This newspaper ad is included in…

Toronto’s affordable housing crisis déjà vu

Residential school denialism: what is it and how to recognize it | CBC News Residential school denialism does not deny the existence of the school system, but rather downplays, excuses or misrepresents facts surrounding the harms caused by it, experts say.

Residential school denialism: what is it and how to recognize it

Discover Some of the Oldest Structures in Canada with Passport Places - National Trust for Canada For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have called the land now known as Canada home, long before British and French...

Discover Some of the Oldest Structures in Canada with Passport Places - National Trust for Canada