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]

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]

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

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]

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]

If you haven’t noticed already, last Friday we posted Quiz #6, our latest quiz. You can take the Quiz by clicking here.  Remember, you only need to submit your name and email address once to be in the draw for a special contest draw at the completion of our Quiz series.  Information on the rules [...more]

Many believe that July 1st signifies the celebration of Canada’s ‘birth certificate’, our original Constitution (aka, The British North America Act). Yet, our own country’s founding document doesn’t seem to have the same cache as what the American Declaration of Independence has to Americans or the Magna Carta has to Britains. Why? Could it be [...more]

Today, we posted our latest — Quiz #4; and, as always, you can enter your contact information upon completion of each Quiz to be eligible for our random draw.  Information on the rules and prizes can be found by clicking here.
We continue to spark the interest from some of our readers, exemplified in a recent [...more]

For the past week, we have been posting translations of the first few Canadian Experience instalments. From Arabic to Urdu, a total of 18 languages (including English) are now represented on this website; you can find these translations by visiting the “Read the Series” page, and click on the “Choose Your Language” dropdown menu. We [...more]

For many of us, one of the incredible advantages of sponsoring a project like The Canadian Experience is seeing the reactions of others and receiving their feedback. National pride in the workings of our country is not only contagious, but can be cross-culturally shared and appreciated.
Word of The Canadian Experience has reached far across the [...more]

The  overwhelming positive reaction to the Series — via phone calls, emails, comments on this website, sign-ups to our Facebook presence and tweets on Twitter — continues to inspire us. We appreciate your enthusiasm and support, and we hope you continue to make it known.
Our list of participating publishers also continues to grow: we are [...more]