- 2026-10-08At 10:12 a.m. on June 24, 1918, Captain Brian Peck of the Royal Air Force and mechanic Corporal C.W. Mathers…
- 2026-10-08In 1829, Henry Jones of Devon, England, a retired purser in the Royal Navy, brought a group of more than…
- 2026-10-08The first group of Polish immigrants to Canada, some 300 in number, established a settlement in this area in 1864.…
- 2026-10-08In 1877, this house, then located in downtown Brantford, became Canada's first telephone business office. It was the residence of…
- 2026-10-08Born in 1833 a short distance from north of this site, Alexander Dunn was educated at Upper Canada College and…
- 2026-10-08In February 1926, J.V. Elliot and Harold Farrington, each flying a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny", made the first in a series…
- 2026-10-08Human fascination with flight has made air shows popular since the early days of aviation. Toronto was the site of…
- 2026-10-08The second half of the 19th century was an era in which technological innovation brought rapid economic progress and social…
- 2026-10-08Incorporated in 1899 under the leading railway promoters Sir William Mackenzie and Sir Donald Mann, the Canadian Northern undertook construction…
- 2026-10-08Here, when the canoe was the principal means of travel, explorers, voyageurs, missionaries and others bound for the West, left…