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The harsh realities of sealing life at “the Front”
When Quest sank, she had 5,200 seal pelts in the hold. A look at the intersecting worlds of polar exploration and sealing.
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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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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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Le Yukon a 125 ans
Un regard sur la façon dont le territoire est devenu partie intégrante du Canada, et sur son avenir
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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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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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From the archives: 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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50 ans de multiculturalisme: quand les expériences vécues font l’histoire
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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50 years of multiculturalism: Where lived experiences make history
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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Après 50 ans de multiculturalisme : Qui est le gardien/la gardienne de l’identité canadienne ?
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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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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L’homme qui a défié la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson
L’histoire étonnante de Renatus Tuglavina, un héros populaire du nord du Labrador
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The man who challenged the Hudson’s Bay Company
The amazing story of Renatus Tuglavina, remembered in northern Labrador as a folk hero
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The surprising pieces of history inside King Charles III’s coronation carriage
02Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ada Blackjack and the Canadian invasion of Russia
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04Artifacts retrieved from Erebus wreck reveal snapshot of life on doomed ship
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The magnificent inland voyage of an Edwardian-era steamship
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Here comes the sun: Canada’s first astronomical observatory
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Au nom de l’humanité : 75 ans depuis la proclamation de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme
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In the name of humanity: Recognizing 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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George Back: The expedition’s artist
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Excerpt from Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery
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“The Switzerland of America”
How the Canadian Pacific Railway turned amenity into luxury with its now-forgotten mountain hotel dining stations
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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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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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Excerpt from Gone Viking III: The Holy Grail
Bestselling author Bill Arnott embarks on an extraordinary adventure, trekking the ancient world, unearthing Viking secrets and more to reveal history’s most elusive treasure, the holy grail
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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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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 – 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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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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Living on the edge: Becoming Toronto
A map of Toronto in 1878 shows a small city on the brink of massive expansion.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s geographical connections to Canada
From noble mountains to local elementary schools, the Queen’s reign and the bonds she’s forged with Canadians are reflected across the map of Canada
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Celebrating Commonwealth Day: A history of heartfelt gifts from Canada to its Queen
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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The Queen and Canada: A Platinum Jubilee timeline
Noteworthy occasions in a lifetime of service between Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth country she has visited more than any other
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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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Le célèbre enfant de Guelph
Un regard sur la vie et l’héritage de John McCrae à l’occasion du 150e anniversaire de sa naissance
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150e anniversaire : le Mouvement des neuf heures et l’adoption de la Loi sur les syndicats
Pour comprendre les protestations des travailleurs qui ont ouvert la voie à la création de syndicats pour promouvoir les droits des ouvriers
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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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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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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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Guelph’s famous son: The legacy of John McCrae
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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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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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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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La grande faucheuse
L’histoire méconnue de la grippe espagnole de 1918 et notre état de préparation à la prochaine grande pandémie
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The bestselling author and historian on why exploration is essential to understanding Canada’s history
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When death came to Labrador
An excerpt from We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919
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The next 100 years
Now that a century has passed since the end of the First World War, is it inevitable that efforts to remember the events of the war will start to fade?
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