The Province of Canada’s First Postmaster General, James Morris
Mail service in early colonial British North America was a sporadic, expensive event. Post offices were rare in the rural communities; the larger communities...
Featherstone Lake Osler, ‘Saddlebag Preacher’ in Upper Canada
A wilderness of forests, rocky regions and waterways, Upper Canada was sparsely populated in the early to mid-1800s. Those who came to southern Ontario...
The SS Mont Blanc Explosion in Halifax Harbor
The collision of the SS Imo and the SS Mont Blanc, heavily laden with wartime chemicals, set off an explosion that devastated the entire...
Fleury Mesplet Revolutionary Founder of “The Montreal Gazette”
Born Joseph Fleury de Mesplet in France, learned the printing craft in Lyon, worked in London and Philadelphia, established "The Montreal Gazette".
Perhaps because of...
Dollard des Ormeaux – Unwitting Hero of Long Sault
The battle which Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and his comrades fought
against Iroquois warriors at Long Sault in 1660 was an offshoot...
The “Extension of Nation”: Commodity and Commodification
The shift from oral to printing culture affected human beings' perception of society. Nations are global villages where information is a commodity.
The 21st century...
The Destruction of Huronia 1648 – 1649
The destruction of Huronia, the homeland of the Huron nation, by Iroquois war parties between 1648 and 1649 was an outcome of the bloody...
The Columbia District
Queen Victoria chose to use the Columbia District for the foundation of the name for the Colony of British Columbia.
The Columbia District was a...
Happyland: The Birth of the Pacific National Exhibition
August 15, 1910. The cover of the five-cent copy of The Vancouver Daily Province featured a cartoon titled All Aboard for the Exhibition. In...
Dubbed Black Christmas, Allies Surrender in Battle of Hong Kong
The WWII Battle of Hong Kong was short. The vicious, bloody fight for the small British Colony located off the eastern coast of China...