Via national post “Queen Victoria took a great and helpful interest in Canada throughout her reign, which began at the time of the Gilbert and Sullivan rebellions of Mackenzie and Papineau in 1837. She sent the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to Canada on a visit…
Category: Canadian history
Heritage Minutes Back in Style
Via globe and mail In the beginning, there was Valour Road, Jacques Plante and the Underground Railroad. Then Nellie McClung, Superman and the Halifax Explosion. Soon, dozens more. By 1995, four years after their launch, Heritage Minutes were a Canadian institution: 60-second snapshots of cultural history thrust into…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper Addresses the Parliament of the United Kingdom
“Thank you Lord Speaker, Mr. Speaker, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Lords and Members of the House of Commons, colleagues. “For anyone who fully understands and truly cherishes our free and democratic institutions and their nature and the long history upon which they rest there is…
Remembering The Battle of Vimy Ridge
As a former student and History Major, I always mark April 9th as a special day of remembering Canada’s contribution and sacrifice of the Canadian troops who gave their lives during the second world war and therefore allowed the people like myself and my sibling to have…
Sir Isaac Brock
by Sean_Marshall Today marks the bicentennial of the Battle of Queenston Heights and the death of Sir Isaac Brock. I still remember the day trips with my family to the Niagara region when I was a young impressionable boy . We did a complete circuit of Fort George and…