Events Archive

If you were here on March 6, 1945, you will remember the waterfront explosion of the 10,000-ton freighter Greenhill Park, easily the most spectacular and disastrous event in the port’s history…..

A new era in rail travel in Canada began April 24, 1955. The Canadian Pacific Railway introduced The Canadian, an “ultra-modern, lightweight, highly attractive stainless-steel streamlined train.” The train would offer the world’s longest dome ride: 2,881.2 miles. (4,637 k/m).

In 2004 Eric Daichi Ishikawa, one of the students taking part in that year’s Historica event (in which students from elementary schools all across Canada prepare historical exhibits on topics of their choice), assembled an illustrated report on the June 17, 1958 collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge.

Was Canada’s national anthem written in Vancouver? No. To get the facts, come back with us to a gloriously sunny day in July, 1908 in Quebec City. Brigadier-General Lawrence Buchan was in command of the garrison at Quebec, at the head of 12,000 troops taking part in ceremonies…

In 1997 Lorne Findlay, the man standing by that beautifully restored 1912 REO Special, made an astonishing journey: he drove the car right across Canada! With him was writer John Nicol.