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unusual facts about Canadian history



Domotor-Kolompar criminal organization

The Domotor-Kolompar criminal organization (also called the Domotor family crime group) was a Canadian human trafficking ring that was dismantled in the biggest human trafficking case in Canadian history.

Elmira District Secondary School

At that point in Canadian history, the market for unskilled labourers was rapidly diminishing due to automation in industry and its rapid growth.

James Keelaghan

Examples of such themes include "Kiri's Piano", about the internment of Japanese Canadians, and "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, inspired by events and figures in Canadian history.

Jules-Isaïe Benoît

Jules-Isaïe Benoît, who was commonly known by the surname of Livernois, is important to Canadian history for his contributions and development of the photography industry in Quebec.


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Aaron Webster

Although some media called Webster's killing the first gay-related murder in Canadian history, much like the Matthew Shepard incident in the United States it was merely the first to attract widespread media attention.

Bernard-Claude Panet

He had two siblings who gained some fame in Canadian history; Jean-Antoine Panet who became a Lower Canada politician and Jacques Panet who also became a priest.

Bert Brown

Brown became the second person in Canadian history, after Stan Waters, to be appointed to his Senate seat following a provincial senator-in-waiting election.

CFVO-TV

Until that station signed on, that channel position was dark for a period of time, making CFVO the first major television station in Canadian history to have actually gone dark, and the only one until CHCA-TV in Red Deer, Alberta & CKX-TV in Brandon, Manitoba closed in 2009 along with three stations in 2011 -- CJAL-TV Edmonton, CIAN-TV Calgary & CKXT-DT (formerly CKXT-TV) Toronto.

Claire Boudreau

Claire Boudreau, PhD, FRHSC, AIH, (born 1965) is a Canadian historian, genealogist, and officer of arms.

Cornelius Wiebe

At age 105, Wiebe became the oldest person in Canadian history to be granted the Order of Canada.

East Ferris

She was the oldest living person in the world for the eight months preceding her death, and remains both the oldest verified person in Canadian history and the fourth oldest verified person in the world.

François-Maximilien Bibaud

François-Maximilien Bibaud (23 October 1823 – 9 July 1887), a son of Michel Bibaud, has an important place in Canadian history because of his teaching of law and extensive writing on a wide variety of juridical subjects.

Frits Pannekoek

Graduating from the University of Calgary in 1969 with a BA, Pannekoek went on to get his MA from the same institution, followed by a doctorate in 1974 from Queen's University with a dissertation on Western Canadian history and Indigenous peoples.

Ian Josephson

A Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Ian Josephson gained national attention overseeing the trial of two persons accused of bombing Air India Flight 182, the largest mass-murder in Canadian history.

MV Christmas Seal

In 1996 wood salvaged from the Christmas Seal was used to build the guitar "Six String Nation" to denote a patchwork of Canadian history.

Nova Scotia Power

In 1992, NSPC was privatized by the provincial government of Premier Donald Cameron in what was then the largest private equity transaction in Canadian history.

Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

If the Alberta PC government is still sitting on September 4, 2014, they will pass the Nova Scotia Liberals as the longest-serving provincial government in Canadian history.

Thomas d'Aquino

Canadian author Peter C. Newman, in his book Titans, describes d'Aquino as "the most powerful influence on public policy formation in Canadian history".