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Like oil today, in 1843 coal was essential to economic development. But William Logan found no coal in the Province of Canada.

Mona Parsons was member of the Dutch resistance, and one of only a few Canadian civilians to be interned in Nazi prison camps. Andria Hill recounts Mona Parson’s remarkable story.

No matter where we have come from, we are all Canadians.

When Canadian war medals are auctioned, everyone pays a price. 

The stories behind the names embedded in Canada’s geography.

In this podcast series Canada’s History spoke with the finalists for the 2019 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.

How a group of pacifists in sixties-era Ontario was forced to question its principles of non-violence.

Much of Canada’s early history was shaped by the presence of smallpox, a “speckled monster” as deadly as Ebola that wiped out whole communities. Could the disease rise again?

In this podcast series, Canada’s History spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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