Thomas D’Arcy McGee was a poet, journalist, historian, lawyer and one of the Fathers of Confederation. A hard drinker who was perennially in debt, he was
How Vancouver’s 1945 Green Hill Park disaster reminded Canadians of the Halifax Explosion almost 30 years earlier.
Early Soviet spy satellites orbited the Earth at a height of about 250 kilometres for a few months, then, when they were no longer operational, they were jettisoned to an orbit of some 1,000 kilometres. But when COSMOS 954, a nuclear-powered satellite that was launched in September 1977 finished its operational life, it started tumbling toward Earth.
The Permanent Active Militia (or Permanent Force) began the Great War in 1914 with a strength of a little more than 3,100 officers and men.
Exploring the work of war artist, Molly Lamb Bobak During the Second World War, the Canadian government officially appointed 32 war artists—but only one
William Lyon Mackenzie was a short, combustible, red-haired Scottish immigrant who coined the term “Family Compact.” He used it to describe the small network of wealthy
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
