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...
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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...
Iron Mountains, Boyers
Iron Mountain Incorporated is one of the world’s leading data management companies, and its most famous high-security storage facility lies more than 200 feet underground in the former mining town of Boyers, Pennsylvania. Among...
Dye
Dyes have been used for thousands of years. Cave paintings from the Upper Palaeolithic period (35,000 to 10,000 years ago) show that people already knew how to reproduce colours. But whereas cave artists used...
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...
Croatia’s Adriatic Coast
Imagine Roman ruins set against the stunning colors of Croatia’s Adriatic Coast, and you can really envision how magical it must have been during the Roman times. May is the time to go, so...
