Canadian History Ehx
Follow Craig Baird as he explores the good, the bad and the weird of Canada's history from the pre-colonial era to 25 years ago. Whatever you want to know about Canadian history, this is your one-stop shop.
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July 23, 2024 • 42 mins
When the Avro Arrow debuted, it was a revolutionary aircraft that broke records almost immediately. Then, as soon as it took to the air, it was mothballed and scrapped, changing the aerospace industry of Canada, the United States and United Kingdom forever.
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July 20, 2024 • 22 mins
The community of Redvers has a fascinating history to explore, from the Indigenous Peoples, all the way to today.
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July 16, 2024 • 38 mins
When she hit the waves for the first time, the Edmund Fitzgerald was called the Queen of the Lakes. For almost 20 years, she journeyed across the lakes before a fateful night in November that ended in tragedy. Today, the song about the disaster written by Gordon Lightfoot has become an iconic piece of Canadian culture.
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July 13, 2024 • 63 mins
Episode 294: On the evening of December 21, 1883, near Bloomfield, Ontario, visitor Peter Lazier was murdered by two intruders at the farmhouse of Quakers Gilbert and Margaret Jones. The community, deeply affected, quickly organized a search. They traced footprints in the snow, leading to Joseph Thomset and the Lowder family's homes near West Lake. By the next day, Joseph Thomset and brothers David and George Lowder were arrested a...
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July 9, 2024 • 40 mins
Today, teams compete for the Stanley Cup while traveling in private jets and staying in fancy hotels. Things were very different 120 years ago when a team from Dawson travelled 5,000 kilometres just to compete for the Cup.
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July 2, 2024 • 24 mins
On a cold day in February 1942, Winnipeg and Manitoba fell to Germany in a provincial battle. While it seemed very real, it was part of a Victory Bond campaign that proved to be incredibly successful.
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June 25, 2024 • 45 mins
Over the course of 70 years, various members of the LGBTQ community have helped make Canada a better and more tolerant place. It has been a long road, with many setbacks, to get to this point.
Today, I look at those who helped make Canada better.
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June 22, 2024 • 22 mins
In 1931, a larger than life prospector, in search of Slumach’s legendary lost gold mine goes missing in the wilderness of British Columbia.
In this episode, we retrace the epic search and rescue efforts that went into looking for the missing prospector as well potential clues left behind at his campsite, that point to an even bigger mystery of what happened to Volcanic Brown?
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June 18, 2024 • 34 mins
The Boyd Gang was a group of four men who found each other in prison, escaped, robbed banks, got arrested and escaped again. It is the story of amazing escapes, daring chases and, sadly, a murder or two.
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June 11, 2024 • 41 mins
He was egotistical, bombastic and totally convinced of his own legend. The man who was the Minister of Militia during the first part of the First World War became a controversial figure in our military history and the reason Canadian's are no longer knighted.
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June 6, 2024 • 23 mins
No Stone Left Alone (NSLA) provides students with an authentic leadership experience centered around a uniquely moving, hands-on act of remembrance - laying a poppy at the headstones of veterans.
Today, I speak with Maureen Bianchini Purvis and Randall C. Purvis about the program and organization.
Learn more about No Stone Left Alone here: https://www.nostoneleftalone.ca
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June 4, 2024 • 26 mins
On June 6, 1944, 14,000 Canadians stormed Juno Beach as part of the D-Day landings. Over 1,000 would become casualties on that day.
This is the story of Canada on D-Day.
Learn more about No Stone Left Alone here: https://www.nostoneleftalone.ca
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May 28, 2024 • 33 mins
For four decades, George Simpson was The Little Emperor of Rupert's Land as the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. He guided the company through a transformative time in its history, but many of his policies came at the expense of the First Nations.
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May 21, 2024 • 39 mins
When news about the end of the War in Europe spread to Canada, Canadians across the country celebrated. Some celebrated harder than others, and some in Halifax celebrated so hard they caused $5 million in damages.
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May 14, 2024 • 30 mins
For a brief moment, the eyes of the world were on a small area of Vancouver Island called Nootka Sound. The events that unfolded there changed the world.
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May 7, 2024 • 40 mins
A lacrosse star in Canada, Jay Silverheels made the move to Hollywood in the 1940s and achieved immense fame as Tonto on The Lone Ranger. He took that success and worked to help other Indigenous actors in Hollywood for the rest of his life.
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April 30, 2024 • 32 mins
For five seasons in the 1980s, Fraggle Rock was a must-watch show for a generation of Canadian children. Created by Jim Henson, it was produced by HBO and CBC and featured many Canadian puppeteers and actors, and was filmed in Toronto.
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April 23, 2024 • 35 mins
For centuries, pirates such as Ned Low and Black Bart, came to Canadian shores to rob fishermen, steal ships, restock supplies and pick up new crews.
Some pirates were nice, others were bloodthirsty, but all were interesting.
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April 16, 2024 • 24 mins
Stolen from his home in Africa by enslavers when he was 16, he remained enslaved for two decades.
Then, using his new freedom, he fought for the British and Canada not once, but twice, and helped many other Black Canadians in his area.
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April 9, 2024 • 29 mins
For one season in 1946, prior to changing Major League Baseball forever, Jackie Robinson played for the Montreal Royals. He never forgot his time in Montreal, nor the kindness he received from the city's residents.
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