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  1. Beer Vote Legality Due for Court Test

    Date(s): January 1, 1929 to December 31, 1935 Location: Lindsay, Ontario, Canada Tag(s): Canada, Great Depression, Prohibition 

    My article "Beer Vote Legality Due for Court Test" from May 9th, 1935, refers to a court test of Ontario’s Liquor Control Act. The challenge sought to determine whether plebiscites on prohibiting the sale of alcohol were legal. Lawyer W.H. Bouck organized the petition that prompted the vote by Lindsay’s City Council.  The Council’s ruling was a close 5 to 4 decision to hold a plebiscite to ascertain...

  2. Recommendation for Change, Multiculturalism in the Making

    Date(s): December 10, 1968 Location: Ottawa, Canada Tag(s): Educational Rights, Language Rights, Nationalism, Canada, Identity 

    The December 10th, 1968 edition of The Globe and Mail highlights a news article by Lewis Seale that details recommendations made in a report by the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (RCBB). Seale describes the report as a call for the Canadian government to provide federal aid to elementary and secondary minority language schools for districts whose French minority makes up at least...

  3. Human tie of Canada and Hong Kong in 1980s and 1990s

    Date(s): January 1, 1980 to December 31, 1999 Location: Hong Kong, Canada Tag(s): Business immigrants, Hong Kong, Canada, Immigration Policy, Immigrants 

    Canada and Hong Kong were strongly connected by immigrants, business, government, and education in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1989, eleven percent of 189,956 immigrants to Canada were coming from Hong Kong (“Hong Kong”, 1990). One in eight new Canadians were Hongkongers. 20,000 Hongkongers landed in Canada in 1989, which included independents, business, and family class immigrants. The Commission...

  4. River Railroad of Rumrunners

    Date(s): August 19, 1927 Location: Wayne, Michigan Tag(s): Detroit River, Canada, Belle Isle, Prohibition, Detroit 

    Imagine America without alcohol.  Now imagine a booming American city without alcohol.  For most Americans during the Prohibition Era (1920-1933), this was just as hard to imagine.  Which is why many did not allow the ban on booze to stop them from enjoying it.  The Detroit River served as the perfect medium for these devoted drinkers, as this article from the Atlanta Constitution August 19, 1927,...

  5. Canadian Involvement in NORAD.

    Date(s): December 12, 1958 Location: Outside US Tag(s): Canada, NORAD, USA, Nuclear 

    The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was a joint partnership agreement between Canada and the United States over the defense of North America from Soviet long range bombers. Cooperation between the United States and Canada was vital to the success of NORAD, however. In a letter to the assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs, John M. Leddy expressed his concerns over...