Dominion: The Railway That Built a Nation — and the Price of a Canadian Dream A Review of Stephen R. Bown’s Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada A Review of Stephen R. Bown’s Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada There are moments in the history of nations when ambition exceeds reason,…
The extraordinary story of the Norse explorers who crossed the North Atlantic five centuries before Columbus, established a settlement in Newfoundland and left behind one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries in Canadian history. The Strangers from Across the Sea Around a thousand years ago, a wooden vessel approached the northern coast of Newfoundland, its…
The North-West Mounted Police- 1869–1875 The origins of the Mounted Police, the ambitions of Sir John A. Macdonald, and the struggle to establish Canadian government across the western Plains. A Dominion on Paper On the morning of 8 July 1874, a remarkable procession began moving westward from Fort Dufferin, Manitoba. There were mounted policemen in…
Captain James Cook: The Explorer Who Brought Britain’s Pacific Ambitions to the Shores of Canada The remarkable voyages of Captain James Cook, his encounters with the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, and his lasting influence on the history of British Columbia. Canada History Society | Historical Feature On 29 March 1778, two British Royal…
