William Osler Taught the Art of Bedside Medicine to New Doctors
The skills of touching, viewing or speaking with a live patient were not required modules in medical student training in early Canada. A licence...
Major-General Sam Steele of Canada’s North West Mounted Police
Courageous, Samuel Benfield Steele was a Canadian hero, keeping order in the Klondike Gold Rush and leading soldiers in war. He was knighted in...
“Albertosaurus” Dinosaur Fossil Found in Alberta in 1884
Scouting for coal and other resources and the best routes for new railways, geologists explored the Red Deer River valley in southern Alberta in...
Louis Roy First Printer of “Upper Canada Gazette”
Quebec-born Louis Roy, a superior typesetter, was the first printer of the first newspaper in Upper Canada.
At age 15, Louis Roy (1771-1799) began his...
Remembrance Day Holiday: Remembering Flanders Fields November 11
If we do not remember those who sacrificed their lives in times of war for Canada, we are ultimately saying their actions were meaningless...
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...
Gold Rush in Atlin, British Columbia
In 1898, two young miners found placer gold on Pine Creek in northern BC. The gold rush was on, and the town of Atlin...
Iberville at Hudson Bay: 1686 – 1687
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville displayed characteristic ruthlessness and daring in capturing and retaining three of the Hudson's Bay Company's trading posts.
The Hudson's Bay Company...
Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, Co-founder of Reader’s Digest
In magazine racks at checkouts, on coffee tables at dentist and doctor offices, in all sorts of waiting rooms, the covers of Reader’s Digest...
Joseph B. Tyrrell, Noted Geologist, Gold Miner, Dinosaur Hunter
Scarlet fever struck Joseph Tyrrell when he was a young child and the illness left him with permanent hearing damage. Tyrrell, born on November...