Canada's Thanksgiving wasn't fixed on the second Monday in October until 1957. In 1898 it fell on November 24th, the same day as the American one, and a newspaper editor called that Yankeeism.

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My great-grandfather served with the Canadian Engineers as a lieutenant on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918. I've put his diary, letters, medals and photos online so his story can be read and explored.
robertsondiary.com
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Some of the Pilgrims' descendants ended up in Canada. They sided with the Crown in the American Revolution, and when it was lost, they went north. More than 30,000 Loyalists went to the Maritimes alone.

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In 1578, 43 years before the Pilgrims' harvest feast, English sailors knelt to give thanks in Frobisher Bay, in what's now Nunavut. A minister named Wolfall preached on their "strange and miraculous deliverance."

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Between 1749 and 1768, three waves of settlers came to Nova Scotia, and the third one brought its own way of keeping records.

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Nova Scotia's oldest continuous church registers were kept by the French Acadians. Port-Royal was founded on the Annapolis Basin in the summer of 1605.

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Nova Scotia's history did not start with a ship. The Mi'kmaq were here first, in a homeland they call Mi'kma'ki. It covers all of today's Nova Scotia and reaches into PEI, New Brunswick, the Gaspé and Maine.

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Ontario began registering births, marriages and deaths in 1869, two years after Confederation. Before that, births and deaths were usually recorded only by churches.

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In June 1812, the United States declared war on Britain, and Upper Canada was the front line. The war left records behind: militia pay lists name the men who served.

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On 26 December 1791, the old Province of Quebec was split in two, mostly along the Ottawa River. West of the line was Upper Canada, today's Ontario, with roughly 10,000 settlers.

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After the American Revolution, about 7,500 colonists loyal to the Crown came to what is now Ontario. Most arrived in 1783 and 1784, on land along the St. Lawrence, the Bay of Quinte and the Niagara River.

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Sean Menard’s Run Terry Run offers an intimate, compelling look at Terry Fox and the iconic Marathon of Hope.

Read more in our review by @queerfilmnerd.

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#CallforPapers! Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine invites submissions for peer-reviewed research on the history of urban Canada. Rolling submissions, published twice yearly. Submit: https://bit.ly/3TvTBBy

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Catching up on columns I didn't share while deep into recuperation

For this column, I got to delve into the importance of rum in early Canada and chatted with an award-winning, local rum maker!

Yo ho ho!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Victoria Unveils Japanese Canadian Internment Monument Honouring 25,000 Names

Read more: 👇
https://www.thecanadareport.ca/japanese-canadian-monument-victoria/

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How Canada used the Indian Act to target Indigenous leaders
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#FirstNations #IndigenousRights #IndianAct #IndigenousHistory #CanadianHistory #HumanRights #Politics #Colonialism #The14Media
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In his exploration of the #RCMP, Kent Roach outlines the crises and outdated training practices that are causing harm and emphasizes the need to approach police work with communities and Indigenous people in mind.
Explore Red Alert: https://bit.ly/4fgwzFq
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