Canadian History

WHO'S READY to take me on?! CANADA just wasn't ready for greatness, or national independence, folks! The Arrow was ushering the Canadian public forward, toward these very related ends. SO IT'S GOOD the Arrow perished. THE ARROW asked a lot from Canada. THE IROQUOIS even more. And the fainthearts weren't ready. Mythological aeronautical achievements born from pure CANADIAN RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT … yes, from true Canadian blood, sweat, tears and genuine problem solving skills on a level not…

Full scale replica of the Avro Arrow. It's so much bigger than I pictured in my head. It dwarfs the old Lancaster sitting on the floor next to it, which itself was a big aircraft.

The intersection of Derry Road and Airport Road (6th line) was known as the Four Corners. “In the 1840s, members of the Blanchard family cleared land northwest of the Four Corners and that area became the Village of Malton...In 1855, the village was subdivided into sharply angled streets named after English villages from which many residents had come.” - Passport to the Past Heritage Tours Book (1996), Anne-Marie Raftery, editor “The village was surveyed and subdivided into lots in 1855 by…

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Avro Arrow (RL-201) (with RCAF Sabre fighter chase plane)

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For many Canadians, the Avro Arrow has come to symbolize both the potential, and the unfulfilled promise, of Canadian innovation.

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An update to the storied CF-105 Avro Arrow was put forward as an alternative to the purchase of F-35 stealth fighter jets

Committed fans of Canada’s lost aeronautical triumph devote time and cash in the search for a piece of history believed to lie 30 metres down.

James McKay (1862-1931)

RIEL, LOUIS, farmer, miller, and Métis leader; b. July 1817 at Île-à-la-Crosse (Sask.), eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Riel, dit L’Irlande, a voyageur, and Marguerite Boucher, a Franco-Chipewyan Métisse; d. 21 Jan. 1864 at Saint-Boniface (Man.).

James McKey: A Metis Builder of Canada

The 1869–70 uprising in the Red River Colony (also known as the Red River Resistance) was sparked by the transfer of the vast territory of Rupert's Land to the new nation of Canada. The colony of farmers and hunters, many of them Métis, occupied a corner of Rupert's Land and feared for their culture and land rights under Canadian control.

Rare, historic photographs of Louis Riel and Manitoba, taken in the 1860s and 1870s, were found amongst civil war memorabilia at a recent auction in Australia.

Riel House National Historic Site (Parks Canada) - St. Vital - Winnipeg Region - Destinations - Joie de Vivre

Rare, historic photographs of Louis Riel and Manitoba, taken in the 1860s and 1870s, were found amongst civil war memorabilia at a recent auction in Australia.

The Sail, Norway House

Fort Prince of Wales

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Heritage Canada has just released a brand new Heritage Minute featuring Lucy Maud Montgomery. Who is L.M. Montgomery? For every kid that grew up in Canada, she is better known as the author of Anne of Green Gables. The Disappointment of an AncestryDNA Test: Personally I just read those […]

François Gros-Louis, Fur trapper, William Notman

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Fort Ellice (RM of Ellice-Archie)Fort Manitoba -View of Fort Ellice 1890. Ellice (RM of Ellice-Archie) A stone monument marks the former site of the fur trading post of Fort Ellice of the Hudson’s Bay Company, now situated in what is now the Rural Municipality of Ellice-Archie.

Hudson's Bay Trading Post at Telegraph Creek, Head of Dease Lake - 1900

Manitoba -Fort St. James National Historic Site. Like other fur trade sites in Canada, it is a cultural icon, a place “to which we attach layers of belief, meaning and significance.”

Photo: Moose Cree Discoveries and Adventures Moose Factory, on an island in the Moose River, was the second Hudson's Bay trading post in British North America, after Fort Rupert. The town of Moosonee lies on the shore near where the river flows into James Bay. This remote community, occupied mostly by Cree people, is the main setting for the award-winning novel Through Black Spruce (Penguin, 2008), by Ojibway author Joseph Boyden. Boyden's second book, it won the Giller Prize.

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Step back in time to Canada's fur-trade era with costumed interpreters and reconstructed buildings at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Somerset Island, Nunavut

One of the major climactic scenes in this story is the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (also called the Battle of Quebec) of September 13, 1759. The British troops were spread out into two thin red lines stretching a mile long and ordered to double-charge their muskets (i.e. to load a musket with two balls). The end result was quite a devastating impact on the French forces. Charles, as a soldier in the British Army, saw this firsthand - from the winning side, of course. ;)

Start clicking around in the Encyclopedia of Banff History and you’ll quickly get lost in a sea of fascinating clips and images that cover the intriguing history of Banff National Park. Mostl…

The Ottawa River joins 38 other Canadian rivers that have received the designation

Canadian History in the News: The past is always a part of the present. This blog series looks at current events and stories that have a Canadian history element to them and I offer my opinion on t…

Harsh living conditions, low wages, long work weeks and employers' refusals to negotiate with unions drove a rebellion of blue-collar workers in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.

A look at the Canadian and Manitoban historical figure and founder, Louis Riel, and why he is such an interesting figure to study!

Gentleman' Joe McKay, mixed-blood interpreter for the mounted police, fired the first shot in what would become known as the Duck Lake battle. The Prince Albert Volunteers were organized by "Gentleman" Joe McKay, an Anglo-Metis scout of the North West Mounted Police."

Gabriel Dumont the statesman with his “writer”, E. Riboulet and Mrs. Riboulet (not Madeleine Dumont as sometimes identified), Staten Island, N.Y., 1887.

The Riel House, Winnipeg: Riel's body laid in state in his parent's house until burial.

Index: Early French Canadian Pioneers of Quebec Pierre Montpetit / Maupetit / Poitevin | Marie-Louise Baune November 15th, 1683, Lachine [Occ. master felt worker] [Baptismal recor…

In 1660, New France had six male settlers for every female settler. The Filles du Roi were poor women who were brought to North America to fix this imbalance and populate the colony.