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HISTORY: The Northwest Passage

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Northwest Passage

Where Is the Northwest Passage? The Northwest Passage spans roughly 900 miles from the North Atlantic north of Canada’s Baffin Island in the east to the Beaufort Sea north of the U.S. state of Alaska in the west. It’s located entirely within the Arctic Circle, less than 1,200 miles from the North [JR1] . Traversing […]

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Miners during the Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

Gold Rush Alaska Starting in the 1870s, prospectors trickled into the Yukon in search of gold. By 1896, around 1,500 prospectors panned for gold along the Yukon River basin—one of them was American George Carmack. On August 16, 1896, Carmack, along with Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie, later Dawson Charlie (Kaa Goox), both Tagish First […]

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Niagara Falls with rainbow. Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States.

Niagara Falls

The Barrel Brigade They are a group of daredevils firmly entrenched in North American folklore. They are the men and women who have made headlines by an act most people would find inconceivable: choosing to take a ride over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls—sometimes with only inches of wood or metal as protection from the pounding […]

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Explorer Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier’s First North American Voyage Born December 31, 1491, in Saint-Malo, France, Cartier began sailing as a young man. He was believed to have traveled to Brazil and Newfoundland—possibly accompanying explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano—before 1534. That year, the government of King Francis I of France commissioned Cartier to lead an expedition to the “northern […]

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Benedict Arnold

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When Benedict Arnold Tried to Capture Quebec

The Revolutionary War officer-turned traitor had a brilliant strategy—except that everything went wrong.

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Canadian Independence

Canada’s Long, Gradual Road to Independence

Canada was granted the right to self-government in 1867, but did not gain full legal autonomy until 1931. 

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3D rendering of a merged Canadian-USA flag on satin texture. Concept of the mutually influential relations between the two countries politically and economically.

7 Times the U.S.-Canada Border Wasn’t So Peaceful

The U.S.-Canada border wasn’t always so peaceful. Look back at seven times when the United States clashed violently with its northern neighbor.

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1959

St. Lawrence Seaway opened

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The Great Halifax Explosion

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Quebec separatists narrowly defeated

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Canada Day

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1885

Canada’s transcontinental railway completed

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1965

Canada adopts maple leaf flag

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