He was a visionary, and a champion of history who played a key role in repatriating a historic trove of Hudson’s Bay Company artifacts and records back to Canada.
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In this video, Nelle Oosterom, senior editor of Canada’s History magazine, shares her memories of growing up on a small farm in southern Ontario in the 1960s.
Stories about Canada’s history seldom make a big splash on the silver screen. One exception is the Klondike gold rush — like this Academy-award nominated film documentary about life in Dawson City during the rush of 1898.
Archivist Joseph Trivers and Canada’s History editor-in-chief Mark Reid discuss the meaning of the word “vamp” and the role it played in a naughty jazz age song. Then, they treat us to a rollicking reel that got its name from a popular pub game of the time.
