Before Canadian-born movie director James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic) there was James Freer, Canada’s first filmmaker. Born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, Freer moved to Manitoba in

The Battle of the Somme would become known as one of the bloodiest and most futile military campaigns in history. For two years, there had

Thomas D’Arcy McGee was a poet, journalist, historian, lawyer and one of the Fathers of Confederation. A hard drinker who was perennially in debt, he was

Early Soviet spy satellites orbited the Earth at a height of about 250 kilometres for a few months, then, when they were no longer operational, they were jettisoned to an orbit of some 1,000 kilometres. But when COSMOS 954, a nuclear-powered satellite that was launched in September 1977 finished its operational life, it started tumbling toward Earth.

William Lyon Mackenzie was a short, combustible, red-haired Scottish immigrant who coined the term “Family Compact.” He used it to describe the small network of wealthy

On Sept. 2, 1972, I was a teenager spending the weekend at a friend’s cottage. They had a television there. My pal and I were