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This free download was created in connection with the April-May 2013 issue of Canada’s History where we featured a story about Canadian photographer Roy Kerwood’s experience at the famous 1969 “bed-in” in Montreal. The article was called “Come Together: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Montreal 1969.”
How a Montreal teen bluffed his way into John and Yoko’s bed-in for peace.
Historians, authors, humourist, and broadcaster — we asked nine of them “Who’s your secret history idol?” The answers may surprise you.
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike remains an unparalleled moment of solidarity among Canadian workers.
Protesting a sixty per cent hike in the cost of chocolate bars, kids across the country mounted the bonbon barricades.
During the Great Depression, more than a thousand single unemployed men rode the rails in an organized protest that ended in a bloody clash.
From public-relations experts to romance novelists and news reporters, the people who helmed The Beaver left their marks on the magazine.
The roots of Montreal’s Black community reach back four hundred years.
Canada’s History caught up with comic book historian Hope Nicholson, who along with partner Rachel Richey, is spearheading the drive to introduce Nelvana to a new generation of readers.
A collection of Canadian modernist painters brought abstract expressionism to a city and country that often didn’t want to see it.