#OnThisDay in #cdnhistory: On January 3, 1802, 300 Scottish Highlanders reach #CapeBretonIsland. They found the town of Sydney and immediately begin bagpiping. They are still at it.
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Polite polemics from the Greyed White North. Past facts posted from a post-poutine future. Also, probably, puns. (he/him)
#OnThisDay in 1955, Gwen O'Soup Crane is elected chief of the Key Nation north of Kamsack, Saskatchewan. Crane was the first elected woman leader of a Canadian aboriginal band. Crane died in 2005 at the age of 75.
#OnThisDay #cdnart
Happy Birthday to Canadian painting icon Emily Carr (1871-1945), whose natural landscapes drew inspiration from the First Nations of Canada's west coast. Carr was the unofficial eighth member of the Group of Seven, but she'll always be Number One in my books!
Happy Birthday to Canadian painting icon Emily Carr (1871-1945), whose natural landscapes drew inspiration from the First Nations of Canada's west coast. Carr was the unofficial eighth member of the Group of Seven, but she'll always be Number One in my books!
#OnThisDay #cdnpoli On December 2, 1989, Audrey McLaughlin is elected leader of the NDP, replacing Ed Broadbent and becoming the first woman to lead a seated party in the Canadian House of Commons.
#OnThisDay in 1948: Yvette Brind'Amour and Mercedes Palomino found Théâtre du Rideau Vert, the first French-language theatre in Canada. The company would premiere the works of many legendary Quebecois playwrights, including Michel Tremblay (with Les Belles-Soeurs in 1968).
Its name, "the Green Curtain," challenges fate because green was considered bad luck in theatre. It worked! Rideau Vert remains alive today.
#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.
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.
#cdnfilm #NameTheFilm Name the Canadian film from 2000 that was narrated by this perpetually reincarnated talking fish.
#OnThisDay #cdnhistory Jeanne Mance is born in 1606. Mance was among the founders of Montreal in 1642, and established its first hospital. Born bourgeoise, she chose not to marry but instead to dedicate her life to caring for the sick and injured of New France.
Born #OnThisDay in Montréal in 1919, Simonne Monet-Chartrand came from a middle-class family, but directed her skills in writing, speaking, and advocacy towards pacifism, union rights, and suffrage (women gained the right to vote in Quebec in 1940). She was active in the Bloc populaire canadien, Voix des femmes, the League of Human Rights, and was a writer and broadcaster for Radio-Canada. Her autobiography, Ma vie comme rivière, has 4 volumes! (There's a film version too). She died in 1993.
