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As a way of illustrating the importance of company fur traders to the 100-year-old HBC collection, curator Amelia Fay pulls out three items donated by Julian Camsell, HBC Chief Factor for the MacKenzie District in Canada’s Arctic
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Continuing our deep dive into the Hudson’s Bay Company archives at the Manitoba Museum, this week we look at some of the items that figured prominently in trade, including the iconic point blanket
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Written on animal skin 350 years ago, the Royal Charter that created the Hudson’s Bay Company is both an incredible and problematic document
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In a 1938 radio recording, Charles Camsell, the founding president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, details what it was like growing up at an HBC fur trading post
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Indigenous rights lawyer and author Jean Teillet reveals how the struggle to dominate the fur trade led to the rise of a distinct people in Canada: the Métis
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Un aperçu de la formation de la province « timbre-poste », présenté par une carte de 1871
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A look at the inception of the original postage-stamp province through an 1871 map
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100 years after the Halifax Explosion, the city retains traces of its pre-war life
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As Canada embarks on a process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the Métis are still without territory to call their own
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L’histoire méconnue de la grippe espagnole de 1918 et notre état de préparation à la prochaine grande pandémie
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An excerpt from We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919
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The little-known story of the 1918 Spanish Flu and how we're preparing for the next great pandemic
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New multimedia project will examine the social and political impact of the flu on Canada, and how experts are preparing for the next pandemic
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Omar Mouallem, auteur de Praying to the West : How Muslims Shaped the Americas (Prière vers l’Occident : comment les musulmans ont façonné les Amériques), examine pourquoi une foi inébranlable dans le projet de multiculturalisme canadien – commune à la génération d'immigrants musulmans arrivés dans les années 1970 – n'est pas toujours partagée par ceux qui ont migré au cours des 20 dernières années, et est rarement ressentie par leurs enfants
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Omar Mouallem, author of Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas, looks at why an unshakeable faith in Canada’s multiculturalism project — common amongst the generation of Muslim immigrants who arrived in the ’70s — is not always shared by those who have migrated in the last 20 years, and is rarely felt by their children
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La professeure Anna Triandafylllidou se penche sur un projet de mise en récit numérique où 28 étudiants de deuxième cycle de partout au Canada étaient invités à répondre à la question : Qui suis-je ?
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Professor Anna Triandafyllidou reflects on a digital storytelling project that saw 28 graduate students from across Canada answer the question: Who am I?
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During the mass Irish migration to Canada 175 years ago, some 100,000 people passed through the quarantine island — and more than 5,000 died there
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Some of these gifts are undeniably odd, but they have all been chosen carefully to represent or to engage the Queen in the full panorama of the Canadian story
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A century ago, a strange drama played out on Wrangel Island in the Russian Arctic. The hero of this tale? A 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack
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The journey a master mountaineer described “one of the strangest ventures of my life.”
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The act was meant to formalize Canada’s national identity — and keep the peace
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the election of Canada’s first female MP, Agnes Macphail
0275 years after Viola Desmond’s stand against segregation, former theatre honours her legacy
0350 ans de multiculturalisme : nous le faisons bien, sauf quand nous ne le faisons pas
0450 years of multiculturalism: We do it well … except when we don’t
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Michael Adams, président du groupe de sociétés Environics et contributeur régulier de commentaires publiés sur les valeurs et les tendances sociales canadiennes, affirme que la plupart des Canadiens considèrent le multiculturalisme comme un symbole important de nos aspirations en tant que société
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Michael Adams, president of the Environics group of companies and the Environics Institute, and a regular contributor of published commentary on Canadian values and social trends, says most Canadians view multiculturalism as an important symbol of what we aspire to as a society
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Dora Nipp, directrice générale de la Multicultural History Society of Ontario, réfléchit à l'importance de consigner les histoires des migrants, des communautés ethniques et des Autochtones comme moyen essentiel de comprendre le Canada au XXe siècle et au-delà
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Dora Nipp, CEO of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, reflects on the importance of chronicling migrant, ethnic and Indigenous stories as an essential means to understanding Canada in the 20th century and beyond
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The re-release of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's Frozen in Time introduces a new generation to a captivating — and still unsolved — mystery
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Our experts continue their discussion of the AMC series about the Franklin Expedition
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A century ago, the medical school building at the University of Toronto was the site of a momentous scientific breakthrough
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Il y a un siècle, le bâtiment de l’école de médecine de l'Université de Toronto était le site de la découverte révolutionnaire de l’insuline
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The bestselling author and historian on why exploration is essential to understanding Canada’s history
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La participation du Canada à la bataille de l’Atlantique, montrée ici, est considérée comme étant son rôle le plus crucial dans la guerre.
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Canada’s part in the Battle of the Atlantic, shown here is considered its most essential role in the war
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The amazing story of Renatus Tuglavina, remembered in northern Labrador as a folk hero
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Acquisition ensures that the medal set awarded to Saskatchewan-born Lieutenant-Colonel David Vivian Currie in the Second World War will stay in Canada
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This year marks a century and a half since the first numbered treaties were signed
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A new exhibit at the British Library in London, U.K. features images captured by Canadians between 1895 and 1924
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Winning gold 100 years ago in Antwerp, Belgium, Canada’s team set a standard for Olympic hockey dominance that would last for three more successive Games
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AMC's new 10-part narrative of the Franklin expedition is part high adventure, part gothic horror
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On April 1, 1999, Canada’s youngest population took control of its largest territory. Here’s how Canadian Geographic covered the story.
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Published in the New York Journal as a fanciful full-page map, Going to Klondyke encouraged everyday newspaper readers to try their luck at gold prospecting in the Yukon
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100 years ago — on October 22, 1921 — the iconic Nova Scotian schooner was victorious in its first major race
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A book by environmental historian Daniel Macfarlane reveals the decades of technological feats and cross-border politics that went into “fixing” one of North America’s most important natural sites
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Canada’s last active seaport immigration shed closed 50 years ago — a look back at Pier 21
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Le symbolisme du Bluenose, l’emblématique goélette canadienne de pêche et de course, est peut-être tout aussi pertinent aujourd’hui qu’il y a 100 ans, lorsque le navire a touché l’eau pour la première fois
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The symbolism of the iconic Canadian fishing and racing schooner Bluenose may be as relevant today as it was 100 years ago when the ship first hit the water
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A French-born Canadian changed the world of mapping by photographing the Rockies
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A 17th-century circumpolar map shows the early days of Arctic exploration
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Author Emma Donoghue’s novel about the 1918 pandemic offers up many parallels to our 2020 pandemic experience
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Retracer l’histoire des Nations Unies à l’aide d’une carte, réalisée pour les écoles en 1947 afin de commémorer le grand moment de l’union de la planète pour le plus grand bien
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Tracing the history of the United Nations with a map, produced for schools in 1947 to commemorate the momentous coming together of the planet for a greater good
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La première exposition des artistes avait lieu le 7 mai 1920
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Their first exhibition was May 7, 1920 at what is now the Art Gallery of Ontario
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Une rétrospective des débuts de l’institution fondée il y a 350 ans, qui revendiquait autrefois une part importante du globe
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Gagnante de la médaille d’or il y a 100 ans à Anvers (Belgique), l’équipe canadienne a établi une domination en hockey olympique qui a duré pendant trois autres Jeux successifs
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L’année 1970 marquait la naissance des Jeux, créés pour donner aux athlètes nordiques plus d’occasions de s’entraîner et de participer à des compétitions
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Games were started in 1970 to give northern athletes more opportunities for training and competition
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“Most successful season” of exploration since the wreck was discovered surfaces 350 artifacts from officers’ quarters
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In his new book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Mark Bourrie examines the larger-than-life legacy of the French-Canadian fur trader
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A new book by Ken McGoogan traces the experiences of Scottish Highlanders evicted from their homes to pre-Confederation Canada
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Our beloved red-and-white maple leaf flag was raised on Feb. 15, 1965, but not before years of angry debates and a parade of competing designs were put down
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A new novel by Erika Behrisch Elce brings Lady Franklin — widow of doomed polar explorer Sir John Franklin — to life in new and creative ways
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Why HMCS Haida became the flagship of the Royal Canadian Navy
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Magazine to look for evidence of racist language and attitudes in every issue published since 1930 and report on its findings
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New Canadian Museum of History exhibit featuring digital facial reconstruction to open July 1