Canadian actor and comedian, Phil Hartman and his younger brother Paul in Brantford, Ontario in the 1950s.

“Cross Country Canada” in 1991

You work hard for your money

11 year old boys playing hockey in Minnedosa, Manitoba in 1957

Ronald “Ronnie” Hawkins passed away two years ago today at 87 in Peterborough. Here is a show poster of one of the many “Ronnie and the Hawks” shows at the Concord Tavern on Bloor in the 1960s. Hawkins would depart the band having Levon Helm lead the band as “Levon and the

Sparkles nightclub, located at the top of the CN Tower, was open from 1979-1991. credit: Denise Benson/then and now toronto

Wasaga Beach, Ontario between 1924-1930.

Woman holding a bag of groceries exits Co-op grocery store in Nova Scotia in 1953. credit: library & archives of canada

A Canadian soldier taking part in a night attack during Operation SPRING in Fleury-sur-Orne, France on July 25, 1944 during WWII. credit: library & archives of canada

Tom Thomson in Algonquin Park in Ontario between 1914-1916. credit: library & archives of canada

Trans-Canada Highway on Lake Temiskaming, near Temagami, Ontario in 1954

Did you ever have a CCM bike? Which ones?

A Chapman’s Ice Cream truck in Markdale, Ontario in the 1970s. Now Canada’s largest independent ice cream company.

Chief of the Ulkatcho (Anahim) First Nation, Lynda Price, and her son Carey in the late 1980s in BC. Lynda, an experienced advocate for indigenous rights, received her law degree in 2015 and was re-elected as Chief in 2019. Her son, Carey, was an NHL goalie.

Provincial Parks in Alberta in the 1960s. credit: provincial archives of alberta

A house being floated from Silver Fox Island, Bonavista Bay, to Dover, Newfoundland in 1961. credit: library & archives of canada

Arrival of immigrants at Union Station in Toronto in 1910

Today is Tom Longboat Day in Canada. Thomas Charles Longboat, Iroquois name Cogwagee, was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario. Longboat, born in 1887, would go on to become the most globally known Canadian athlete of the first half of