History Bits

Meet Tom Longboat, an Onondaga long distance runner who becomes a world-class athlete.

Prairie families in the 1930s watch their farms — and hopes — blow away while they wait for rain.

Nellie McClung and a group of devoted suffragists stage their mock parliament to make a point about women’s equality.

The city of Halifax bulldozes a Black settlement that had stood for 150 years, destroying a community but not its spirit.

Ride the rails across Canada with Black sleeping car porters as they fight for labour rights and civil rights.

Chinese-Canadian Kam Len “Doug” Sam served in the air force in the Second World War. Shot down in France, he gathered critical information as a spy for the Allies.