We travelled to Red Bay, Labrador to tell this truly incredible story about whaling in the 1500s, and two Basque captains who went head to head over an alleged whale theft. Streaming now at youtube.com/canadiana

Woah.

Niagara Falls is very much on the list of future @ThisIsCanadiana episodes we'd love to do — such a fascinating mix of the spectacular and the strange.

Recognize anything?

These photos of Montréal, Ottawa, Québec and Toronto were taken in the 1850s and 1860s as part of a Grand Trunk Railway project.

More from the Thomas Evans Blackwell album: central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=…

#ThrowbackThursday

An other episode of the excellent Canadiana Canadian History web series is out, give it a watch! youtube.com/watch?v=iL-dGr…

How the American Civil War Made Canada: From the pubs of Saint John to the docks of Halifax, from Southern Ontario battlefields to the battlements of Quebec City, find out which Canadians were on the right and wrong sides of history.

Thanks for having us, T.O. WebFest! Canadiana was honoured to receive three nominations this year, including Best Documentary Series and best from Toronto, and our team sure was thrilled to take home the 2023 award for Best Visual Effects in a digital series!

Victorian tourists get their photo taken with a shipwreck in Nova Scotia — while the search for bodies is still underway in the background.

We'll talk about it in 'Love, Death & Canadian History' — the online course stats this Thursday! adambunch.com/lovedeathcanad…

This summer, the Island marks 150 years as a Canadian province - next week we unveil our new exhibit about the Island's century and half in Confederation - come join us and check it out!

The Skandi Vinland joined the search for the missing sub this week.

We saw it while shooting @ThisIsCanadiana in St. John’s — docked right outside my hotel window & sailed past Signal Hill while we were filming.

It has two remotely operated vehicles to help with the search.

#OnThisDay is 1923 work was progressing on the west pier and abutment of the #GerardStBridge over the Don River. ow.ly/UT2150NBvgl #OTD #TorontoHistory #TorontoArchives

Canadiana wins another one! We've always felt that our editing and animation style is crucial to the entertainment value of the series. Absolutely thrilled to be honoured again for Best Editing in Web Series by the Canadian Cinema Editors Association itself. Thank you CCE.

So the Calgary Flames were originally the Atlanta Flames and I just learned are apparently named after Sherman burning the city down.

Althia Raj I really like Canadiana 's telling.
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Thanks to Stareable for awarding us Best in Editing at #StareableFest LA '23!

Did you know Alberta once tried to print its own money?

In honour of the incipient Alberta Election #abpoli , I want to share a new score for my political memorabilia collection: a 1936 Alberta Prosperity Certificate.

But why did Alberta try this? Why did it fail? Thread:

Death, Scandal & The Toronto Islands...

I'm offering a new walking tour in a couple of weeks! It'll be filled with dramatic tales of shipwrecks, bootleggers, disaster and murder.

Hope to see you there!

Canadiana From scandalous love triangles to secret experiments, from rebels and freedom fighters to pirates and spies, we uncover the fascinating and the unexpected. This isn't the history you learned in school.