Dianora (Diane Bruce)Jul 5, 2025

Remembering the Dow beer scandal when Dow added Cobalt to the beer and killed a few people.

Their TV commercials were "Wouldn't a Dow go good now?"

https://www.urbexplayground.com/urbex/curse-dow-brewery

#Canada #Quebec #History #CanHistory #Beer #Cobalt #Medicine

The curse of the Dow brewery

Although this building was built around 1861, the history of the Dow brewery began nearly 60 years earlier, in 1790, when a farmer named Thomas Dunn started in the beer industry in La Prairie, who was an important stopover for travelers who went to New York from Montreal. At the time, travelers had to navigate from Montreal to Sorel on the St. Lawrence River and then, navigate the Richelieu River from Sorel to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (formerly known as Dorchester, taking them a whole day.

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Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 7, 2025

This video is 🔥 🇨🇦 ✊

Question: "The PM says Mr Trump is sincere in his desire to annex Canada... how do you deal with someone who disrespects us like that?"

Minister of Labour Steven MacKinnon, "Canada will choose its own destiny, thank you very much."

Transport and Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand, "There will be no messing with the 49th Parallel. Period."

#CanHistory #USAHistory #canPoli #cdnpoli #canada #USA #history

Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 7, 2025

The top story at the CBC. “Trudeau tells business leaders at economic summit Trump's 51st state threat “is a real thing”

A question for #CanHistory #USAHistory historians in the crowd!

Since the war of 1812, has there *ever* been a time when Canadian leaders of the territory or nation of Canada have believed the USA could attempt to take over the country?

#canPoli #cdnpoli #canada #USA #history

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-economy-summit-1.7452748

Trump's threat to annex Canada 'real' and motivated by access to critical minerals, Trudeau tells crowd | CBC News

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders at the Canada-U.S. Economic Summit in Toronto that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Canada "is a real thing."

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SeanJan 24, 2024
I posted a little story about the history of the #metric system in #Canada. Do you remember some of this from the 1970s and 80s? #measurement #canPoli #canHistory
https://open.substack.com/pub/thisnthat/p/do-you-remember-when-canada-adopted?r=28exja&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Do you remember when Canada adopted the metric system?

Implementation of Système International in the 1970s was fraught with challenges, protests

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IHenderJan 3, 2024
https://activehistory.ca/blog/2024/01/02/no-one-killed-canadian-history-it-is-time-to-move-on/#more-36671 Good piece! The problem with all these claims that some individuals or areas are being "erased" from history is the refusal to acknowledge that, in deference to those individuals and areas, a whole lot was erased/ignored/forgotten. To misquote Paine, too much pitying the plumage while ignoring the dying bird. #History #CanHistory
No One Killed Canadian History. It is time to move on

The problem I have with these claims is that they often ignore the good work of historians who have taken a different perspective.

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IHenderAug 10, 2023
https://activehistory.ca/blog/2023/08/07/activehistory-ca-repost-simcoe-day-and-the-politics-of-reclaiming-and-renaming/?fbclid=IwAR2hwTlpmQvZDMp0uW12-3Xy6XeIMA_FpRLygMee1PZJIVW21-HGaBHEAQg Interesting article from 2017. #CanHistory #PostColonial
ActiveHistory.ca repost — Simcoe Day and the Politics of Reclaiming and Renaming

ActiveHistory.ca is slowing down our publication schedule this summer, but we’ll be back with more new posts in September. In the meantime, we’re featuring posts from our archive. Thanks as always …

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Canadian History EhxNov 22, 2022

Charles Clark, founder of the High River Times, helps his son Joe Clark sit on a stand near High River, Alberta around 1940.
Joe Clark was born on June 5, 1939 and became Canada's youngest Prime Minister in 1979.
Along with being PM, he had a distinguished Parliamentary career

#Cdnpoli #Canpoli #Canhistory #Canadian #CanadaHistoryWeek #Canpol #Cdnpol #PrimeMinister #History #Histodon #Histodons #JoeClark

The Canadian Book of the DeadNov 20, 2018
#OnThisDay #canhistory
Happy Birthday to James B. Collip (1892-1965), one of the Canadian biochemists who isolated insulin, making it safe for medical use. Collip, Frederick Banting, and Charles Best sold their shared insulin patent to the University of Toronto for one dollar.