Canadian History Archives - Calgary Guardian https://calgaryguardian.com/tag/canadian-history/ Arts, Culture and Lifestyle from Calgary Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:07:28 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://calgaryguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cropped-CalgaryGuardian_Logo_FaviconApp-32x32.jpg Canadian History Archives - Calgary Guardian https://calgaryguardian.com/tag/canadian-history/ 32 32 Review: Dancing Around the Table, Parts I & II, NFB films by Maurice Bulbulian https://calgaryguardian.com/nfb-film-review-dancing-around-the-table/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 21:57:08 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=19536 Dancing Around the Table Part One and Dancing Around the Table Part Two, are both NFB documentaries directed by Maurice Bulbulian. In 1980, triggered by the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution, Representatives of Native Peoples [...]

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]]> Vintage Photos of Trading Posts from Across Alberta https://calgaryguardian.com/vintage-photos-trading-posts/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 07:44:40 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=18040 Canada’s western frontier was developed on the back of the fur trade. As an extremely competitive business, the fur trade thrived for nearly 250 years as hunters and trappers attempted to satisfy Europe’s demand for [...]

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]]> Historic Photos of Waterton Lakes, Alberta https://calgaryguardian.com/historic-photos-of-waterton-lakes/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:14:15 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=8639 The prairies meet the Rockies in Waterton Lakes National Park. The park was first established on May 30, 1895, making it Canada’s fourth national park. Waterton is celebrating its 125th birthday this year. The park [...]

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]]> Historic Photos from the Rogers Pass area in BC https://calgaryguardian.com/historic-photos-rogers-pass/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:00:06 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=7260 In 1881 Major Albert Bowman Rogers, then working for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, first suspected he had found a passage through the impenetrable Selkirk Mountains where a railroad could be built. A year later [...]

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]]> Historical Photographs of Banff’s Cave and Basin https://calgaryguardian.com/historical-photos-banff-cave-basin/ Thu, 23 May 2019 17:21:10 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=4678 Banff’s Cave and Basin is the birthplace of Canada’s national park system. In 1883 three railway workers, brothers William and Tom McCardell and their partner Frank McCabe, “discovered” the cave and basin on the lower [...]

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]]> Curated Collection of Vintage Photographs from Fort Calgary https://calgaryguardian.com/vintage-fort-calgary/ Thu, 07 Mar 2019 03:20:16 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=3740 Calgary can trace its roots back to the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers, known as Moh’Kinsstis to the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy. The junction of these two rivers lies at the heart of [...]

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]]> Lethbridge Lineage: Southern Alberta’s Historic Fort Whoop-Up https://calgaryguardian.com/fort-whoop-up/ Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:30:34 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=3440 Before there was an Alberta, before there were Mounties, there was a Whoop-Up! In 1869 two Montana fur traders, John J. Healy and Alfred B. Hamilton, traveled north to British/Canadian territory (formerly Rupert’s Land owned [...]

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]]> Red Deer’s Roots: Alberta’s Historical Site Fort Normandeau https://calgaryguardian.com/fort-normandeau-story-red-deer-roots/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:37:34 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=3379 “The detachment of the 65th Rifles took Robert McClellan’s ‘hotel’, built in 1884, and fortified it. They cut loopholes in the walls, built a palisade of 10-foot logs set in a 2-foot trench, erected a [...]

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]]> Yoho’s Stone Bugs https://calgaryguardian.com/yohos-stone-bugs/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 03:04:43 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=1503 “The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and [...]

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]]> Lake of the Little Fishes https://calgaryguardian.com/lake-of-the-little-fishes/ Thu, 07 Jul 2016 23:10:13 +0000 https://calgaryguardian.com/?p=1419 Lake Louise, one of the most photographed and visually stunning lakes in the world, needs no formal introduction, but are you aware of how the lake became so popular? The lake was officially “discovered” in [...]

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