#OTD in 1929 Lucille Teasdale was born. Humanitarian and visionary Lucille Teasdale was one of Canada's first female surgeons. Lucille dedicated a large part of her life working in Northern Uganda. Watch her #HeritageMinute here:
Jasper is expecting periods of snow starting tomorrow until Sunday night. Depending on snowfall amounts, highway closures or delays may be required for avalanche control work. Be sure to plan ahead and check https://t.co/UxJEcv49l1 @511Alberta#ABRoads
NEW bio from the @CdnEncyclopedia on Bill Miner, the 1st to rob the Canadian Pacific Railway and an outlaw hero in Canadian folklore. Known as the “Gentleman Bandit” for polite manners during holdups, he's also credited with coining the phrase “Hands up!” https://t.co/r3yUfhHVBW
#OTD in 1916, Manitoba became the 1st province to grant women the right to vote in Canada. Nellie McClung was a leader of this movement, and later joined forces with a group of women who worked for national suffrage and became known as the Famous Five. Watch her #HeritageMinute:
We looked through pages and pages of tax records. And it's clear that at least a dozen Canadian environmental organizations received millions from wealthy U.S. donors who are targeting Canada’s oil industry. So where exactly is all this American money coming from? #cdnpoli
@WendyMesleyCBC WOW. Since @WendyMesleyCBC reported this, CorpEthics re-wrote its web-site, deleting that its strategy "from the very beginning" was to "land-lock" oil sands crude. Also deleted mention of influencing elections
Original: https://t.co/wlLOP9FTs3
Re-Written: https://t.co/E21ZcYhZud
#DYK that before the arrival of Europeans, there were +30 million bison in North America? By the late 1800s, plains bison no longer existed in Canada, and wood bison numbered about 200. Thanks to conservation efforts, today that number is up to 350,000. https://t.co/F83itCXPi0
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#OTD in 1849, Sam Steele was born in Purbrook, Canada West. A man of enormous physical strength and endurance, in 1898 he helped establish the authority of the Canadian government during the Klondike Gold Rush. Watch his classic #HeritageMinute today. #MenDontWearPistolsInCanada
The most quoted #HeritageMinute of all-time lands at number 3 on our #Top10HeritageMinutes of 2018: Dr. Wilder Penfield! He made ground-breaking advances in the treatment of seizure disorders and his #HeritageMinute made a generation of Canadians wary of burnt toast: