In 1866, the Fathers of Confederation—among them John A. Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier, Alexander Galt and George Brown—were in London, staying at the Westminster Palace Hotel.
It began, as so many things did in this country, with John A. Macdonald. In November 1885, he declared that 26 square kilometres on Sulphur Mountain overlooking
When Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, was Governor General of Canada, he donated a trophy—known originally as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup—for Canada’s best amateur hockey club.
Hitler’s plan was to destroy the Royal Air Force then launch Operation Sea Lion, an invasion of England. Winston Churchill assumed as much. “Hitler knows
Overweight span When they started building the Pont de Québec spanning the Saint Lawrence River in 1905, there was a sense of pride. Designed mainly
Now the rest of the assault troops are going in. I am going ashore with them.” This was the last line in Ross Munro’s dispatch
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
