There is a hunger for and urgent need to provide readable, attractive material on Canada’s rich history to newcomers and first generation Canadians alike who rely on their own multilingual publications for much of their information.
The common threads of the civic, political and social development of this country, and the more recent changes wrought by [...more]
NEW! Canada's Hockey Experience: The Sport of a Country
| Canada’s golden pursuits
Posted on 02 April 2010
The synergy of cultural community outreach
Posted on 17 March 2011
The synergy continues: our multilingual Canadian history series and the cultural community outreach of Maple Leaf Sports + Entertainment through, in part, their designated Cultural Heritage nights and other special events at Toronto Maple Leafs, Marlies and Raptors games.
Tomorrow (Friday) night, at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre for the MLSE’s South Asian Night/Raptors game, our series [...more]
The New and Old Mainstream Converge at the ACC
Posted on 04 March 2011
As you may already have noticed Maple Leaf Sports + Entertainment (MLSE) has proudly supported The Canadian Experience series. We in turn have been proud to share the culture of hockey with our New Mainstream® audience through our special Canada’s Hockey Experience series on this site; but we’re also excited about new [...more]
Our J.L. Granatstein on RCI’s The Link
Posted on 15 December 2010
How does Canada’s government work? How do its regions work? Who are our great prime ministers? This past Friday, our General Editor J.L. Granatstein spoke with Marc Montgomery on RCI’s The Link about these and other
Canada’s Constitution: it is uniquely ours
Posted on 09 November 2010
Just last Thursday, we posted an item about a recent conversation happening on the website of our affiliated project, Bring Back the Act. (You can read that post by clicking here.) Today brings another exchange on the uniqueness of Canada’s Constitution that we hope is of interest to our Canadian Experience readers; it was sparked [...more]
Bring Back the Act conversations
Posted on 04 November 2010
An interesting online discussion came up on the website of our affiliated project, Bring Back the Act. If you’re not familiar with this initiative, we are enlisting the help and support of all Canadians to bring back Canada’s original Constitution, The British North America Act of 1867 (The BNA Act), currently in London, England. As [...more]
Site updates: next week’s column, on this day
Posted on 08 October 2010
First, a quick site update: due to the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend, next week’s instalment will be uploaded here the following day, on Tuesday, October 12. Next week, The Canadian Experience begins the “Peoples” chapters of the series. Covering 8 columns, authors J.L. Granatstein, Patrick Brennan, and Robert Bothwell explore Canada’s First Nations, the early [...more]
Our Quiz Contest coming to a close
Posted on 30 September 2010
Since late April, we’ve posted a total of 11 quizzes, based on some of The Canadian Experience columns. So, a quick reminder for all as time is running out: if you haven’t entered our random contest/draw for taking one of our quizzes, there’s still time. We will be closing this particular contest noon today, so [...more]
Patrick remembers
Posted on 28 September 2010
Our colleague and Multimedia Nova Board member Patrick Gossage has an illustrious 40-year career in the areas of journalism, broadcasting, politics and communications and public relations, including serving as Prime Minister Trudeau’s press secretary. Today, we mark the 10th anniversary of Trudeau’s passing with a personal photograph and remembrance from Patrick.
Site updates: our latest Quizzes, BringBackTheAct , and more
Posted on 12 August 2010
The Canadian Experience Quiz series continues. Information on the rules and prizes can be found by clicking here; and we will be posting Quiz #9 tomorrow morning, on (lucky) Friday August 13. Since our last update here, we’ve posted quizzes #7 and #8; if you haven’t yet taken them, we hope you do.
UPDATE: Quiz #9 [...more]
The Hon. Frank Iacobucci weighs in on Bring Back the Act
Posted on 09 July 2010
Our affiliated campaign, Bring Back the Act, is continuing to spark attention, interest and discussion. (If you haven’t signed the online petition, you can click here to access it.) It’s satisfying to see people speaking up and taking the time to post a comment, telling us not just how they feel about the campaign but [...more]
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52. Canada in Afghanistan
Posted on 25 April 2011
By David J. Bercuson
The struggle to unseat the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, and keep it from returning to power, is Canada’s longest war by far. On September 11, 2001 terrorists hijacked four US passenger planes; they crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City, destroying the center, and [...more]
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51. Peacekeeping Turns into War: the Balkans
Posted on 18 April 2011
By David J. Bercuson
On September 15 and 16, 1993 a battalion of the Canadian Army engaged in battle for the first time since the end of the Korean War 40 years before. The Canadian battalion — 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (2PPCLI) — was defending the approaches to Medak, a small [...more]
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50. Canada’s Unique Unified Military
Posted on 11 April 2011
By David J. Bercuson
Canada is the only country in the western world that has a single unified military instead of an army, navy and air force. This unified military, named the Canadian Armed Forces, came into existence on February 1, 1968 just as the separate Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force [...more]
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49. Canada: The Peacekeeping Nation?
Posted on 04 April 2011
By David J. Bercuson
Canada was once one of the world’s most active countries in United Nations peacekeeping operations. In fact, Canadians took pride that their soldiers did not really fight wars from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s but instead put on United Nations blue helmets to help warring nations turn from the battle field [...more]
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48. Canada Fights in Korea
Posted on 28 March 2011
By David J. Bercuson
Most Canadians probably knew nothing of Korea in the late spring of 1950. The Second World War was five years in the past and the more than a million Canadians who had fought the war were getting married, having children and settling into civilian life.
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47. Canada’s Second World War
Posted on 21 March 2011
By David J. Bercuson
Canada declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939 largely to support Britain and France which had declared war on September 3. At that time, Canada was a nation of just under 11.5 million people and one large group — the French Canadians — had traditionally shown themselves to be wary of [...more]
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46. Canada’s Great War
Posted on 14 March 2011
By David J. Bercuson
Canada was not even an independent nation when it fought its costliest war ever, the First World War, which for Canada began on August 4, 1914. When the war ended on November 11, 1918, Canada’s soldiers — indeed Canada’s entire war effort — gained a vital step on the road to full [...more]
Canada's Hockey Experience
Canada’s golden pursuits
Posted on 01 September 2011
By Brian Baker
On Canadian soil, in sudden death overtime, Sidney Crosby took the feed from Jarome Iginla, tied up in the corner, and snapped the puck through a small sliver of daylight that U.S. goalie Ryan Miller failed to block.
The passion and celebration that ensued over the “Golden Goal” at the Winter Olympics in 2010 [...more]
