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Fascinating Photos Show How Canada Looked When It Was Created 159 Years Ago

Today is Canada Day. 159 years ago, the modern-day provinces of Ontario, Quebec, as well as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick formed a single political entity called the Dominion of Ca...

Good News in History, May 19

115 years ago today, the world’s first national park department, Parks Canada, was established, 5 years before its counterpart in the US Today they manage the country’s 48 National...

Mining Data and Canada’s Great Acceleration

Josh Sandlos This is the fourth post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series are cro...

Happy Independence Day 2026 – Mexico & Canada

James Cullingham Canada and Mexico approach an historic juncture in their relations with the United States. Both countries face a July 1 deadline over the Canada–United States–Mexi...

horsing around …

Toronto.Until past WW2, Canada was more rural than urban. In the 20s and 30s, youngsters from the east would go west via trains to help with the fall harvest. At left is a photogra...

Supporting Collective Bargaining, Unless it Works: The Past and Present of Federal Labour Rights Suppression in Canada

Christo Aivalis This is the third and final post in the Canada Post and Canadian Culture series. Canada Post and its employees have had an undeniable impact on the culture of this...

Fighting Fires: Quebec Separatism in Canada – Chile Relations, 1968

Thomas Stroyan In February 1968, the Quebec government agreed to loan Chile two Canadair CL-215s (also known as the CANSO). The CL-215 was an amphibious flying boat built for the p...

This Day in History, 1939: King George VI hits Vancouver, in a glorious light blue newspaper

Cache of old newspapers includes a pair of special editions on the royal visit in 1939

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/field-school-fort-st-john-indigenous-history-9.7234615

Archaeology field school near Fort St. John reflects 12,500 years of Indigenous history | CBC News

Knowledge and Science in Canada’s Great Acceleration

Shannon Stunden Bower This is the sixth post in a series about the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance for Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series...

For my fellow canadian leftists

ivyroseiris:For my fellow canadian leftistsCanada is a colonial white supremacist genocidal state, just like the US and Israel. Mark Carney literally said Canada Strong will Make A...

Active History Summer Hiatus

It Won’t Be Long Now! A Scene at the Bathing Beach at Port Dalhousie, Ontario,” May 2, 1930, photo by Canadian National Railways, published by the Toronto Star (Toronto Star Archiv...

Good News in History, June 23

139 years ago today, The Rocky Mountains Park Act passed Canadian parliament, establishing Banff National Park, the nation’s largest and most famous park. It was modeled on the law...

Teaching in Interesting Times: America @ 250 in the Canadian Classroom

A Canadian historian explores teaching U.S. history during America’s 250th anniversary through student projects, debate, and critical reflection. The post Teaching in Interesting T...

We Highlight the Cars Built North of the Border to Celebrate Canada Day

No, Canada's car-manufacturing history is not just about the Bricklin SV-1. Yes, one of the modern factories has a Tim Hortons in it.

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Ontario Celebrates National Indigenous History Month

Canada’s Christine Jorgenson?

Walter T. Cassidy The Windsor Star reported an incident on May 28th, 1954—as did papers all over North America—about a Port Colborne, Ontario woman being arrested in Buffalo, New Y...

How Canada’s Weather Has Changed Over the Centuries

Historical records stretching back centuries offer a rare glimpse into Canada's changing climate – and the extremes that shaped the country The post How Canada’s Weather Has Change...

This Day in History, 1946: The largest 'onshore' earthquake in Canadian history hits Vancouver Island

Quake near Courtenay could be felt from Portland, Ore. to Prince Rupert

Manitoba Museum ‘honoured’ to host founding HBC document, aid in reconciliation

The 1670 charter that formed the Hudson’s Bay Co. was purchased, then donated, after The Bay's doors closed last year. On Thursday, it was welcomed to the Manitoba Museum.

Teaching in Interesting Times: America @ 250 in the Canadian Classroom 

Felicia Gabriele The expression, “May you live in interesting times,” seems on its face, pleasant enough. Resembling a well-wish, its sunny exterior deftly cloaks the dark, caverno...

O Canada, How We Love You…

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s grandfather’s heroics during the Civil War

Robert Carney held off a mob of anti-Treaty demonstrators who tried to storm a guard station in Co Wicklow