Five Man Electrical Band
The Staccatos were a moderate success in the Ontario area in he early 1960s, but as the hippie era bloomed, that name proved to be out of touch. Bands like Big Brother and the...
Canada
British Columbia
Canada’s tallest waterfalls are in British Columbia, but the province is so used to them that some of the largest don’t even have names. Of those that have been named and measured, Canada’s tallest...
The Avro Arrow
When the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon in 1949, just four years after the end of World War II, it began to seem like the next World War, this time a nuclear...
Instant Mashed Potatoes
IN 1962 one of Canada’s largest crops transformed when Edward Asselbergs, a Canadian Ministry of a Canadian Ministry of Agriculture employee, turned the familiar potato into instant mashed potato flakes. He developed the dried...
Halifax Explosion
The Collision On the morning of December 6, sometime before 9:00 a.m., the Imo and the Mont-Blanc both entered the Narrows: the Imo going east toward the open sea, and the Mont-Blanc going west...
Arcade Fire
This Montreal indie band’s Win Butler explained that as a a child he heard a story that haunted him: It was an account of an arcade burning down with kids trapped inside. “It’s probably...
Heart
American draft dodger Mike Fisher formed this band with a group of his Seattle friends (including his brother Roger, and sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson) who had trickled up to Vancouver. First signed to...
Chilliwack
The Collectors found some minor success as a 1960s psychedelic group, but luckily the 1970s weren’t that far away. Changing their namme o Chilliwack – a Native North American term from the Salish language...
Chinois
Similar to shepherd’s pie, this French-Canadian dish features layers of ground beef, corn, and mashed potatoes. Despite the “Chinois” in its name (in French, pate Chinois means “Chinese pie”), it’s not Chinese. The dish...
Men Without Hats
According to a Web stie dedicated to the band’s song “The Safety Dance,” founder Ivan Doroschuk and his two brothers refused to wear hats during Montreal’s cold winters, calling themselves “the men without hats.”
