Canadian History News
@cdnhistorynews.bsky.social
Posts news about #cdnhist nouvelles concernant l'histoire du canada
'An amazing and horrible history': Remembering the Waterford Hospital
'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…
www.cbc.ca
April 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
'An amazing and horrible history': Remembering the Waterford Hospital
More than a department store: The long, complicated legacy behind Hudson’s Bay Company
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.
theconversation.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
More than a department store: The long, complicated legacy behind Hudson’s Bay Company
A Supreme Sesquicentennial: The Upper Chamber’s high court connections
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
sencanada.ca
April 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A Supreme Sesquicentennial: The Upper Chamber’s high court connections
Here's why I've spent 8 months reporting on a 1930s wrongful conviction
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.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
April 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
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.
www.thespec.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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
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
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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
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…
www.estrieplus.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Notre histoire en archives : traditions et délices de Pâques
Saskatchewan has not always been a conservative stronghold
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.
www.cbc.ca
April 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Saskatchewan has not always been a conservative stronghold
The University of Vimy Ridge: USask on the front lines
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…
news.usask.ca
April 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The University of Vimy Ridge: USask on the front lines
Princeton Museum looks to decipher mysterious shorthand of donated journal
Princeton Museum looks to decipher mysterious shorthand of donated journal
Goodfellow's grandson will help the museum decode the unusual shorthand
www.trailtimes.ca
April 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Princeton Museum looks to decipher mysterious shorthand of donated journal
The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school
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…
www.cbc.ca
April 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school
Creating Nunavut … step by step
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.
nunatsiaq.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Creating Nunavut … step by step
Reposted by Canadian History News
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgrF...
Just dropped!
Amazing conversation, #BethAtcheson is so thoughtful and full of insight.
#feministhistory #canadianhistory
Just dropped!
Amazing conversation, #BethAtcheson is so thoughtful and full of insight.
#feministhistory #canadianhistory
1000 Voices, 1000 Stories Episode 011: Beth Atcheson
YouTube video by The Women's History Project
www.youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgrF...
Just dropped!
Amazing conversation, #BethAtcheson is so thoughtful and full of insight.
#feministhistory #canadianhistory
Just dropped!
Amazing conversation, #BethAtcheson is so thoughtful and full of insight.
#feministhistory #canadianhistory
#ElbowsUp: Why have Canadians chosen hockey as the symbol of our national unity?
#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.
www.cbc.ca
April 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
#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
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.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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
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…
www.cbc.ca
March 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Once a bustling rail line, a Moncton path tells a former railway's story
Baseball's Unknown History in Ontario
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.
www.tvo.org
March 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Baseball's Unknown History in Ontario
Reposted by Canadian History News
In today’s post June Chow looks at Chinese Canadian immigration through archives, community memory, and the right to remember.
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.…
activehistory.ca
March 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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
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.
www.cbc.ca
March 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Over 2,000 Scottish historical letters were stolen. They were found in Canada
A Canadian blend: long underwear and politics
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.
www.thewhig.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A Canadian blend: long underwear and politics
Reposted by Canadian History News
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.
deanbeeby.substack.com/p/how-the-ri... #cdnpoli
deanbeeby.substack.com/p/how-the-ri... #cdnpoli
How the rich captured a Canadian prime minister: Part II
New archival details about the identities of Mackenzie King's benefactors
deanbeeby.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
deanbeeby.substack.com/p/how-the-ri... #cdnpoli
deanbeeby.substack.com/p/how-the-ri... #cdnpoli
Reposted by Canadian History News
New substack from me: the inside story of how the mega-rich bought a Canadian prime minister. New details unearthed from the archives.
deanbeeby.substack.com/p/how-the-ri... #cdnfoi
deanbeeby.substack.com/p/how-the-ri... #cdnfoi
How the rich captured a Canadian prime minister: Part I
New archival details about a secret funds for William Lyon Mackenzie King
deanbeeby.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
New substack from me: the inside story of how the mega-rich bought a Canadian prime minister. New details unearthed from the archives.
deanbeeby.substack.com/p/how-the-ri... #cdnfoi
deanbeeby.substack.com/p/how-the-ri... #cdnfoi
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
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
www.wlu.ca
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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?
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'...
www.youtube.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Why did Canada switch to metric?
Tech-utopian, conspiracist and apartheid fan: Elon Musk’s grandpa was shaped by Canadian politics
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.’
www.cbc.ca
March 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Tech-utopian, conspiracist and apartheid fan: Elon Musk’s grandpa was shaped by Canadian politics