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History and Indigenous Studies professor Cody Groat joined Global News Morning to discuss Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew’s calls to abolish the Indian Act.

Watch the segment: globalnews.ca/video/121243...

#WesternU #SocialScience #IndigenousStudies #CanadianHistory
November 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Hey there BlueSky! I talk about queer Canadian history! If that's something you're interested in, make sure to drop me a follow!
#queer #queerhistory #canadianhistory
November 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Today in History
not only was basketball 🏀
Invented by a Canadian😃
thee very first NBA🏀 Game
was in Toronto 80 years
ago on November 1st 1946
#MadeinCanada #Sports
#CanadianHistory #cdnpoli
www.nba.com/news/on-80th...
poster for the very first NBA national basketball association game in history was in Canada🇨🇦
November 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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A law and order Orange Order supporter and an absolute asshole who his own cabinet hated.

Yeah that’s his grave but we don’t have to like it.

#CanadianHistory #polisci
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Wandering around Belleville Cemtery which is the final resting place of former prime minister Sir Mackenzie Bowell.
October 29, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Cheryl Thompson gives a reading from her book on racism in entertainment, stereotypes in Hollywood and Black performers. History explained on this week’s The Reading List. Watch: buff.ly/E7OijMl Listen: buff.ly/Mj4u5ud #BlackTikTok #HistoryTok #CanadianHistory
November 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Canadian🇨🇦 Actress Model
Singer and Sex Symbol 👀
YVONNE Di CARLO played
the glamorous vampire
matriarch LILY MUNSTER
in the sitcom The Munsters
amongst many Other
Major movie roles
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_...
• www.imdb.com/name/nm00011...
#CanadianHistory #women
#Halloween #MadeinCanada
Canadian🇨🇦 Actress Model Singer and Sex Symbol 👀 YVONNE Di CARLO played the glamorous vampire matriarch LILY MUNSTER in the sitcom The Munsters • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_De_Carlo • https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001119/bio/ #CanadianHistory #women #Halloween #MadeinCanada
October 27, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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My great-grandfather's hand-drawn plans for a “Temporary Emplacement, Type 6”, dated April 27, 1916. Steel I-beams, corrugated iron, sandbags, two loopholes. Marked “to be used later as dugout.”

robertsondiary.com/gallery#temporary-emplacement-type-6

#WWI #WW1 #CanadianHistory
Engineering drawing of Temporary Emplacement Type 6, dated April 27, 1916, with a bill of materials beneath it Plan view of the same machine-gun emplacement, showing its footprint, sandbagged corners and entrance
November 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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We Remember: Alberta soldiers charge into the gas at Ypres borderpulse.ca/alberta-sold...
#Canadianhistory #worldwar1 #Ypres #Alberta
We Remember: Alberta soldiers charge into the gas at Ypres - The Border Pulse
On April 22, 1915, Alberta's 10th Battalion charged Kitchener's Wood after the first gas attack at Ypres. Few men came out.
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November 1, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Her husband said not even an angel from heaven could convince him she was innocent.
So Eliza Campbell took her fight to Parliament.
#CanadianHistory #WomensHistory #LegalHistory
November 1, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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The Hewton|Griffin Awards fund students and/or people with lived experience to undertake archival research on the Canadian history of psychiatry, madness, mental health services, addiction, mad activism, advocacy, or culture.
Details can be found at: buff.ly/GOqmmG7 #Madhistory #CanadianHistory
November 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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On The Reading List this week, Cheryl Thompson gives a reading from her longer podcast on Canadian theatre history, hidden Black history, racism in entertainment, and how stereotypes in Hollywood differ. 💙 📚 Watch: buff.ly/E7OijMl Listen: buff.ly/Mj4u5ud #BlackHistory #BlackTikTok #CanadianHistory
November 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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October 1917: a fortnight’s leave in Paris. His hotel bill from the Hôtel Continental (today the The Westin Paris – Vendôme) apartment 261, 15 francs a day. The second week’s bill carries forward the first week’s 194.50 francs.

robertsondiary.com/gallery#hotel-bills

#WWI #WW1 #CanadianHistory
Hôtel Continental, Paris, bill for October 13 to 19, 1917, apartment 261, 15 francs a day Hôtel Continental, Paris, bill for October 20 to 26, 1917, carrying forward the first week’s total
October 29, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Saint John made history as Canada’s oldest incorporated city, with a legacy shaped by Loyalists, shipbuilding, and the Bay of Fundy. Discover why this port city still stands out. #SaintJohn #CanadianHistory

https://factsaboutcanada.ca/saint-john-canadas-oldest-incorporated-city/
October 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Peter Fidler: From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains is now available in paper and 40% off with code BELY26!
"A valuable ethnohistorical source that will likely be mined for years to come." —Pacific Historical Review
#furtrade #cartography #Canadianhistory #academicsky
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The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and ...
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October 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Honouring the Past, Shaping the Future

This 2SLGBTQIA+ History Month, we’re reflecting on the key moments, community organizing, and advocacy that shaped 2SLGBTQIA+ rights in Canada.

Watch the video to explore key moments in Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ history!

##LGBTQHistoryMonth #CanadianHistory
October 29, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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My great-grandfather was part of the first edition of McGill's COTC (Canadian Officer's Training Corps) in 1912, pictured below. He enlisted as a gunner in 1915 before being commissioned in the Canadian Engineers. He was in France and Belgium from January 1916 to the end of the War.
#CanadianHistory
Image of three rows of men posing for a photo, the first edition of the McGill COTC.
October 28, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Ask when Ukraine's story begins, and you've already picked a side. Part One of the series is up, starting with Kyivan Rus and ending in the famine, with real people carrying the story.
kevinhancey772670.substack.com/p/ukraine-se...

#UkrainianCanadians #CanadianHistory #Canada #Holodomor
Ukraine Series, Part One: Where the Story Starts Is the First Argument
The image shows the oil painting Shevchenko in Exile (Шевченко на засланні) painted around 1860 by Ukrainian artist Kornylo Ustyianovych (1839–1903), depicting the famous Ukrainian poet and painter Ta...
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October 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Read a review of Richard Harris’ The Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s–2020s in Urban History Review 54.2. Harris delivers "the first comprehensive history of the Canadian neighbourhood." https://bit.ly/UHR542k #UrbanHistory #CanadianHistory
October 26, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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The Kidnapper Who Became a Fugitive
He helped take a soldier across the border. Then he had to flee across it himself.

#CanadianHistory #ManitobaHistory #BorderHistory #LegalHistory #History
October 27, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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Honouring
NELL SHIPMAN⭐️
Actress Writer Director
& Producer. FIRST Women
in the World to DIRECT
& Produce Her own films
💪Strong Assertive Female
Characters became a Trademark of ALL
Nell Shipman's films
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Sh...
• wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...
#Women #CanadianHistory
Honouring NELL SHIPMAN⭐️ Actress Writer Director & Producer. FIRST Women in the World to DIRECT & Produce Her own films 💪Strong Assertive Female Characters became a Trademark of ALL Nell Shipman's films • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Shipman • https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-nell-shipman/ #Women #CanadianHistory Nell Shipman's first starring role in a major film was in the silent movie God's Country and the Woman (1916), which was an overnight success. Starring roles in 10 other films, mostly for Vitagraph, were followed by a seven-year contract offer from Samuel Goldwyn in 1917. She turned it down in favour of starting her own independent production company with her husband and filming the highly successful melodrama Back to God's Country (1919), which she co-wrote and co-produced. Not only did it present Shipman in the first nude scene by a well-known actress, but it made a feminist statement: a woman was seen to have the ability and courage to behave both heroically and independently, even rescuing a man in distress. Strong, assertive female characters became a trademark of all Shipman's films.
October 24, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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"I often feel when I see the name of another of the old crowd in the casualty list, that I don't care whether I go back or not."

Read the letter on my website.

robertsondiary.com/letters/1918...

#History #CanadianHistory #WW1
Scan of letter dated October 10 1918 starting "Dear Doris"
October 25, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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#OTD 110 years ago today, Oct 22, 1916. The company marches from Bealcourt to Cannetmont, with lunch “al fresco en route.”

He also writes: “Pete came back without getting married.”

robertsondiary.com/diary/1916/october#1916-10-22

#WWI #WW1 #CanadianHistory
Diary page, October 21-22, 1916, handwritten entry beginning “Fine, clear, cool. – Trekked from BEALCOURT to CANNETMONT”.
October 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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We're a young country, we don't have any Stonehenge monuments or Roman colisseums, but we do have our own historic sites!
#CanadianHistory #Halifax
Halifax’s famous clock celebrates 223 years of keeping time
Halifax's famous Old Town Clock turns 223 this year.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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How much do you know about Canada? Find out with this fun little 10-question quiz at 500ways.com/canada-quiz ( #Canada, #Canadian, #NorthAmerica, #Newfoundland, #Geography, #History, #CanadianHistory, #worldHistory, #worldGeography, #BritishEmpire)
October 21, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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Silk cigarette cards came one per pack, like trading cards. This one, a trooper of the Governor General’s Body-Guards, was found loose in my great-grandfather’s 1917 diary.

robertsondiary.com/gallery#silk-card-governor-generals-body-guards

#WWI #WW1 #CanadianHistory
A small silk cigarette card, No. 26, showing a trooper in dress uniform and tall white plume, captioned “Governor General’s Body-Guards, Toronto”.
October 20, 2026 at 11:39 PM