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Celebrating 50 years of the Little NHL
After five decades, the Little Native Hockey League tournament continues to thrive as the largest Indigenous youth tournament in Ontario
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En souvenir de la première médaille d’or de hockey olympique du Canada
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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Remembering Canada’s first Olympic hockey gold
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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Throwback Thursday: The 1919 Stanley Cup final
For the first time in history, officials were forced to cancel hockey’s biggest game as a flu pandemic continued to rage
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The board game boom
Canada became a hotbed of gaming in the 1980s, for better or for worse
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The magnificent inland voyage of an Edwardian-era steamship
SS Keewatin may be moored in Kingston, Ont., now, but the stylish steamship used to offer a lavish lifestyle while cruising the Great Lakes
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Here comes the sun: Canada’s first astronomical observatory
Fredericton, home to the William Brydone Jack Observatory, will be one of the few Canadian cities to experience the total solar eclipse that crosses North America on April 8
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In the name of humanity: Recognizing 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted an aspirational document articulating the foundations for human rights and dignity, but who was the Canadian that helped make it possible?
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George Back: The expedition’s artist
The Canadian Arctic explorer’s evocative series of watercolours brings to life the beauty he experienced during a doomed overland trek to the Polar Sea
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Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – Part 4(3): Treasures of the fur trade
Episode 19
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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Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – Part 4(2): Blankets and moccasins
Episode 18
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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Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – Part 4(1): The Royal Charter
Episode 17
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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Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – BONUS EPISODE: Life at Fort Simpson
Episode 16
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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Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – Part 3: The rise of the Métis
Episode 15
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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Roy MacGregor – No Canoe, No Canada
Episode 44
Award-winning journalist and best-selling author, Roy MacGregor discusses the history of the canoe and how it continues to capture the imaginations of people across Canada and beyond
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Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – BONUS EPISODE: Sir George Simpson
Episode 14
In this special bonus episode of Explore, canoe expert James Raffan introduces listeners to HBC Governor George Simpson and his unique style of “management by canoe”
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Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – Part 2: Early explorers
Episode 13
Host David McGuffin and RCGS Explorer-in-Residence Adam Shoalts reveal some of the compelling figures of the early fur trade in Canada: Henry Kelsey, Samuel Hearne, and the great Dene leader Matonabbee
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Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company – Part 1: Waskaganish
Episode 12
The Explore podcast delves into the 350-year history of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In this, the first of a four-part series, we visit the James Bay Cree Nation of Waskaganish, site of the first-ever HBC trading post.
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From the archives: Frozen feat — a personal account of the 1925 expedition to conquer Mount Logan
0250 ans de multiculturalisme: quand les expériences vécues font l’histoire
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Un morceau manquant : La Colombie-Britannique s’est jointe à la Confédération il y a 150 ans
La Colombie-Britannique s’est jointe à la Confédération il y a 150 ans. Mais cela a failli ne pas se produire.
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A crucial piece: British Columbia joins Confederation
British Columbia joined Confederation 150 years ago. But it almost didn’t happen.
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Le Manitoba célèbre son 150e anniversaire
Un aperçu de la formation de la province « timbre-poste », présenté par une carte de 1871
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Manitoba celebrates its 150th anniversary
A look at the inception of the original postage-stamp province through an 1871 map
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The surprising pieces of history inside King Charles III’s coronation carriage
A relic from the lost Franklin Expedition, along with other pieces of polar exploration history, will accompany King Charles III to his coronation
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Frozen in time: The remarkable legacy of Mary Vaux, amateur glaciologist
Mary Vaux’s groundbreaking 19th-century study of B.C.’s Illecillewaet Glacier created an invaluable record of the glacier’s recession
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ada Blackjack and the Canadian invasion of Russia
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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Frozen feat: A personal account of the 1925 expedition to conquer Mount Logan
The journey a master mountaineer described “one of the strangest ventures of my life.”
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Artifacts retrieved from Erebus wreck reveal snapshot of life on doomed ship
“Most successful season” of exploration since the wreck was discovered surfaces 350 artifacts from officers’ quarters
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Death rattle: a B.C. priest’s war on rattlesnakes
A look at the devastating environmental toll and the unlikely positive influence a historical conflict with rattlesnakes had on Canadian herpetology
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Ham radio and the world of amateur radio operators
A dive into the fascinating evolution of radio, starting from the first received message at Signal Hill, Newfoundland
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La trace écrite
Un regard sur le système d’identification utilisé pour contrôler les résidents chinois, à l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de la loi sur l’exclusion des Chinois
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Reflecting on the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act
On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a look at the system of IDs used to track and control Chinese residents
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Lessons learned from the ice storm of 1998
It plunged five million people into the dark and cold — the recovery would take years
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Yukon at 125
A look at how the territory became part of Canada — and where its future lies
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Guelph’s famous son: The legacy of John McCrae
On the 150th anniversary of his birth, reflecting on the life of the Canadian soldier and poet best known for writing the poem “In Flanders Fields”
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150th anniversary: the Nine Hour Movement and adoption of the Trade Unions Act
Understanding the workers’ protests that paved the way for the creation of unions to advocate for workers’ rights
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Le grand égalisateur? Se souvenir de la promesse de la Loi sur la citoyenneté canadienne.
Que signifie être un citoyen canadien? Que vos ancêtres habitent cette terre depuis des temps immémoriaux ou que vous ayez récemment immigré, les différentes…
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The long journey home
After nearly 100 years, the Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole stolen from the Nisga’a Nation and displayed in the National Museum of Scotland will be repatriated
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Toronto’s crown jewel: the CN Tower
Fifty years ago, construction began on the CN Tower, now it stands as the pinnacle of the Toronto skyline
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New exhibit spotlights weird and wonderful artifacts from Canadian history
The Canadian Museum of History’s newest exhibit, Unexpected! Surprising Treasures From Library and Archives Canada, opens Dec. 9
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The Alex Fraser Bridge: A critical link in British Columbia’s highway system
In his newest book, Incredible Crossings, renowned historian and best-selling author, Derek Hayes, combines hundreds of visuals with meticulously researched commentary to educate readers on the bridges, tunnels and inland ferries that connect British Columbia
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The hatchery crutch: How we got here
From their beginnings in the late 19th century, salmon hatcheries have gone from cure to band-aid to crutch. Now, we can’t live without manufactured fish.
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The Monarch and the Mounties
Queen Elizabeth II’s famous horse, Burmese, is a symbol of the enduring ties between the Crown and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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The untold story of the Hudson’s Bay Company
A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe
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L’histoire inédite de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson
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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The great equalizer? Remembering the promise of the Canadian Citizenship Act
The act was meant to formalize Canada’s national identity — and keep the peace
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A century ago today, the Bluenose made history
100 years ago — on October 22, 1921 — the iconic Nova Scotian schooner was victorious in its first major race
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Bluenose: Behind the sails
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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The bestselling author and historian on why exploration is essential to understanding Canada’s history
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50 years of multiculturalism: Who is gatekeeping Canadianness?
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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Annulés, mais pas oubliés : les Jeux d’hiver de l’Arctique célèbrent leur 50e anniversaire!
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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Cancelled but not forgotten: The 50th anniversary of the Arctic Winter Games
Games were started in 1970 to give northern athletes more opportunities for training and competition
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Going to Klondyke: The 19th-century game that brought the gold rush into American homes
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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Célébration du centenaire de l’élection de la première députée du Canada, Agnes Macphail
Un siècle plus tard, l’ancienne politicienne fédérale Catherine McKenna fait le point sur ce qui a changé — et sur le chemin qu’il nous reste à parcourir.
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the election of Canada’s first female MP, Agnes Macphail
A century later, former federal politician Catherine McKenna reflects on what has changed — and how far we still need to go
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Guerre sur l’eau
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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War on the water: Charting Canada’s critical role in the passage of ships during the Second World War
Canada’s part in the Battle of the Atlantic, shown here, is considered its most essential role in the war
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Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter
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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L’évolution du cinéma Roseland : 75 ans après le combat de Viola Desmond contre la ségrégation
Le 8 novembre 1946, Viola Desmond est entrée dans l’histoire au cinéma Roseland. Soixante-quinze ans plus tard, le site poursuit son travail de sensibilisation auprès de la communauté.
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75 years after Viola Desmond’s stand against segregation, former theatre honours her legacy
On Nov. 8, 1946, Viola Desmond made history at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, N.S. Seventy-five years later, the building’s exterior pays tribute to her life through art.
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Diabetes breakthrough: The discovery of insulin
A century ago, the medical school building at the University of Toronto was the site of a momentous scientific breakthrough
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Percée dans le traitement du diabète
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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Les Traités 1 et 2 : Dans les faits
Cette année marque un siècle et demi depuis que les traités 1 et 2 ont été signés
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Treaties 1 and 2: Reflecting on the 150th anniversary
This year marks a century and a half since the first numbered treaties were signed
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Célébration du 75e anniversaire de la signature de la Charte des Nations Unies
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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Cobalt: Reclaiming the ancient Indigenous silver mining trade
Long before an amateur prospector struck it rich near Cobalt Lake in northern Ontario, local Indigenous nations mined and traded silver. It’s time to set the record straight on the “discovery” of Canada’s immense resource wealth.
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Célébrant les 100 ans du Groupe des Sept
La première exposition des artistes avait lieu le 7 mai 1920
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Celebrating 100 years of the Group of Seven
Their first exhibition was May 7, 1920 at what is now the Art Gallery of Ontario
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Derrière les voiles
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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Throwback Thursday: Nunavut up and running
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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Excerpt: 305 Lost Buildings of Canada
Raymond Biesinger and Alex Bozikovic uncover the legacies of buildings from across that country that are now gone but still have something to say
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Niagara Falls is actually a marvel of engineering
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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Gateway to Canada: A look back at Pier 21
Canada’s last active seaport immigration shed closed 50 years ago — a look back at Pier 21
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Picturing the mountains
A French-born Canadian changed the world of mapping by photographing the Rockies
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Discovery history: Race to the top
A 17th-century circumpolar map shows the early days of Arctic exploration
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Excerpt from The Pull of the Stars
Author Emma Donoghue’s novel about the 1918 pandemic offers up many parallels to our 2020 pandemic experience
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Adventurer, turncoat, cannibal: the remarkable story of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
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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Flight of the Highlanders: The Making of Canada
A new book by Ken McGoogan traces the experiences of Scottish Highlanders evicted from their homes to pre-Confederation Canada
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Four flags that almost became Canada’s national flag
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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