Ronald Wolf

Arthur Howey “Art” Ross

Arthur Howey "Art" Ross (1886 -1964) was born on this day in 1886. Ross was a Canadian ice hockey executive and defenseman in the National Hockey League and its predecessor, the National Hockey Association. Born in Naughton, Ont., Ross grew up in Montreal where he played junior hockey. In 1905, he joined the Brandon Elks in Manitoba and in 1907 won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Kenora Thistles. For the next season, he returned to Montreal to play for the Montreal Wanderers and again won the Stanley Cup with his new team in 1908. Ross played in the National Hockey Association in 1910 as a member of the Haileybury Comets.

It’s Our History, Our Country

It was a year that changed Canadian politics forever. On Jan.6, 1936, just 16 years after women fought for and won the right to vote, Barbara McCallum Hanley, 1882 -1959, became the first mayor in Canada. Her town was Webbwood, Ont.

Royal Canadian Sea Cadets

Royal Canadian Sea Cadets (RCSC) is a Canadian national youth program sponsored by the Canadian Forces and the civilian Navy League of Canada. Administered by the Canadian Forces, the program is funded through the Department of National Defense with the civilian partner providing support in the local community.

Sir George Williams and the YMCA

Many people dance and have a fun time doing it, you can go and work out there and some places rent you a room to stay there. I am of course taking about the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) or simply called the “Y”.

Newfoundland Goes Bust

The year was 1933 and the world was in the middle of the Great Depression. King Kong thrilled and horrified the movie goers, but in Newfoundland, another horror was invading the Newfoundlanders lives. With the Great Depression affecting almost the entire world, Newfoundland gave up self-governing Dominion status and suspends constitution; caused by the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding the Second World War.

Sandford Fleming and his Time Zone

Time is a wonderful and dangerous thing. It’s what we all need more of but it cannot be seen or felt. We sometimes can buy more of it but at the end, we all run out of time. We put money in machines to make our clothes washed or dried. Time rules our very extinction. There’s a time to sleep, a time to wake, a time to sow and a time to reap. We make money by working for our time only to spend our hard earned money to go off to a vacation and do as little as we can. It’s been said time heals all wounds and makes the heart grow fonder.

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae’s “In Flanders Field”

No history column should forget one of the most influential Canadians who ever lived. On this day there are only a handful of Canadians who changed the world over. I am of course talking about Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae who wrote “In Flanders Fields” which is read aloud the worldwide on this day.

Guglielmo Marchese Marconi and the world’s first radio commercial program

Here’s something all Canadians can boast about (not that Canadians are known to boast mind you). Once again we travel through the twists and turns and waves of time which flows like a river to the shores of Montreal, Que. The date is November 4, 1920 and it’s time for the world to receive its first radio commercial program.