- 2026-10-08An ambitious seaman from Liverpool, N.S.,and sometime privateer, Enos Collins was reputed to be the richest man in British North…
- 2026-10-08Women's service in the military during the Second World War challenged the tradition of all-male armed forces. Between 1942 and…
- 2026-10-08Canada's experimental farms system was established in 1886 by a federal government eager to introduce profitable new methods and products;…
- 2026-10-08In 1847 Andrew Downs, naturalist and taxidermist, established here the first zoological garden in America north of Mexico. When closed…
- 2026-10-08The expulsion of the Acadians began in 1755, on the eve of the Seven Years War. Frustrated with the neutrality…
- 2026-10-08On February 23, 1909, more than 100 people witnessed the first successful powered flight in Canada, as the Silver Dart…
- 2026-10-08In September 1751 Bartholomew Green, one of a noted American family of printers, came to Halifax and set up a…
- 2026-10-08The first Executive Council chosen exclusively from the party having a majority in the representative branch of a colonial legislature…
- 2026-10-08Many Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik and other Indigenous children were forced to attend the only residential school in the Maritimes. Created by…
- 2026-10-08This site, within the Mi’kmaw district of Kespukwitk, was at the heart of changing social, military, and political relations between…