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  • Vimy @ 109 | The Battle of Vimy Ridge
  • Mining Data and Canada’s Great Acceleration
  • Good News in History, May 19

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alexluyckx.com /1 month ago

Vimy @ 109 | The Battle of Vimy Ridge

Within the Canadian Mythos of our nation, there are several events, call them fixed points in the timeline, that have been arbitrarily assigned to build the Canada we live in today...

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activehistory.ca /1 week ago

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...

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goodnewsnetwork.org /1 week ago

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...

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globalnews.ca /1 month ago

Canadian citizenship ceremony held in Halifax museum an emotional celebration

New Canadians were sworn in during a Halifax ceremony, with families celebrating citizenship and what they call safety, opportunity and belonging in Canada.

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globalnews.ca /1 month ago

How rum fuelled ‘alcoholic capitalism’ in Canada’s early economy

Historian Allan Greer is hoping to address some gaps in the historical record with a new book called Canada, in the Age of Rum.

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vancouversun.com /14 hours ago

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

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activehistory.ca /1 day ago

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...

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activehistory.ca /3 days ago

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...

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activehistory.ca /2 weeks ago

Hydro Power, Energy Transitions, and the Onset of Canada’s Great Acceleration

Daniel Macfarlane This is the second post in a series exploring the potential of the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance of Canadian environmental history. The pos...

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activehistory.ca /3 weeks ago

Writing Canada’s Military History – What’s Old is News

By Sean Graham In this episode, I talk with Jean-Michel Turcotte, Acting Chief Historian of the Directorate of History and Heritage at the Department of National Defence and the co...

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activehistory.ca /1 month ago

Imagining a Better Future: An Introduction to Teaching and Learning about Settler Colonialism in Canada

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Unwritten Histories, a project created by Andrea Eidinger that has shaped how many of us think about the past—how it’s written, shared, and...

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allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com /2 days ago

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activehistory.ca /1 month ago

The Legacy of Unwritten Histories

By Stephanie Pettigrew When I first started my PhD in 2013, I left a very comfortable, established community of support in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, made up of friends I had known...

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koreatimes.co.kr /1 month ago

FRIDAY, April 17, 2026

1492-Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I to find the "Indies" with the stated goal of converting people to...

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activehistory.ca /1 month ago

The Complex Legacy of John Carr Munro

By Daniel R. Meister When it comes to periodizing the history of federal policy of multiculturalism in Canada, existing models have loosely associated changes in policy with the ch...

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mobilesyrup.com /2 weeks ago

Canada rarely gets to play itself — these games are changing that

Canada’s storied history in games is a bit paradoxical. On the one hand, we’re one of the largest producers of games in the world, our $5.1 billion industry responsible for such be...

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cicnews.com /2 weeks ago

Prince Edward Island Archives logs four years worth of document requests in four months, as Americans rush for Canadian...

The Public Archives and Records Office of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island has seen a drastic surge in document requests from Americans seeking Canadian ancestry recor...

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toronto.citynews.ca /1 week ago

Americans are looking back centuries to find Canadian ancestors — and citizenship

Cody Sibley was born and raised in Louisiana, but he always felt his family shared strong ties to Canada thanks to his Acadian ancestors from Nova Scotia. Sibley said that as an ei...

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phsc.ca /5 days ago

underwater

Toronto. In 1959 the famous St. Lawrence Seaway opend. All but two of the canals and locks raising ships to the height of the upper great lakes were on Canadian soil although the s...

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vancouversun.com /1 month ago

This Day in History, 1945: Vancouver civic centre proposed, with art gallery, civic theatre and a rink like Maple Leaf G...

The idea was to tear out 'a seven-block dilapidated core' and replace it with 'the live heart' of 'a beautiful civic centre.'

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activehistory.ca /1 month ago

The Halloween Special – Witchcraft in Canada

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Unwritten Histories, a project created by Andrea Eidinger that has shaped how many of us think about the past—how it’s written, shared, and...

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cicnews.com /3 weeks ago

Archives overwhelmed after Canada opens up citizenship to millions of Americans

Archives across Canada are reporting a dramatic surge in requests, after a change in legislation granted citizenship to any American who can trace their lineage back to a Canadian...

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gr8traveltips.com /1 month ago

Rare Canadian Flag In Mexico: Travel Photograph

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blavity.com /1 month ago

Millions Of Americans May Now Claim Canadian Citizenship Through Ancestry

A subtle change in Canadian law has led millions of Americans to apply for Canadian dual citizenship after learning they can do so through ancestry.

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