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Park House Museum on the main street of Amherstburg, Ontario, photographed in 2025.
CA-K363History

Park House, Amherstburg, a house that floated across the border

Park House in Amherstburg, Ontario, an 18th-century combined dwelling and warehouse, is considered one of the oldest houses in the region. It has long been said that its Loyalist owners floated it down the Detroit River to Upper Canada when the British handed Detroit to the Americans in 1796. Its grooved-post construction is a rare survival of a once-common French-Canadian colonial building type.

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Photo: Crisco 1492 · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
The cathedral and statue of Curé Labelle in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, photographed in 2007.
CA-K262History

Curé Labelle, the “King of the North”

To curb French-Canadian emigration to the United States, Curé Antoine Labelle (1833–1891), parish priest of Saint-Jérôme, encouraged settlement in northwestern Quebec, northern Ontario and Manitoba. He played a key role in settling the Laurentians and developing their railways, served as Quebec’s deputy minister of agriculture and colonization, and is remembered as the “roi du Nord.”

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Photo: Yvan leduc · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
Honoré Beaugrand as mayor of Montréal, 1887, photographed by Wm. Notman & Son.
CA-K252Language & names

Honoré Beaugrand, La Patrie and La Chasse-galerie

Honoré Beaugrand (1848–1906), a free thinker who vigorously defended freedom of thought, headed French-language newspapers in the United States and Canada and founded La Patrie (1879–1978) in Montréal. As an author and publisher, he produced some of the earliest works of Franco-American literature, including La Chasse-galerie: Légendes canadiennes.

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Photo: Wm. Notman & Son · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Irma LeVasseur around 1900 (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec).
CA-K211History

Dr. Irma LeVasseur, pioneer of paediatrics

Because francophone universities were closed to women, Irma LeVasseur (1877–1964) studied medicine in the United States and in 1903 became the first female physician licensed to practise in Quebec. A pioneer of paediatrics in Canada, she initiated Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montréal and the Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus and Centre Cardinal-Villeneuve in Québec City.

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Photo: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec P655,S2,SS6,D8 · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
The visitor centre and museum at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in 2010.
CA-K154History

Alexander Graham Bell in Baddeck

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), best known as the inventor of the telephone, was born in Scotland, became a citizen of the United States and was a longtime resident of Canada. In 1907 he and his wife Mabel co-founded the Aerial Experiment Association, which led to the flight of the Silver Dart; he died at his summer home, Beinn Bhreagh, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

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Photo: Skeezix1000 · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context
A beaded Métis sash and a ceinture fléchée (woven sash) on display at a museum in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in 2024.
CA-K123Indigenous peoples & reconciliation

The Métis Nation emerged in the historic Northwest

The Métis Nation emerged in the historic Northwest during the fur trade as a distinct Indigenous people with its own culture, traditions, language (Michif) and nationhood. The Métis Nation Homeland includes Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta and parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northern United States.

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Photo: Fungus Guy · Photo licence: CC BY 4.0 · Credit & context
The Underground Railroad monument in Windsor, Ontario, photographed in 2011.
CA-K065History

The Underground Railroad brought freedom-seekers to Canada

From the early 19th century until the American Civil War, settlements along the Detroit and Niagara rivers were important terminals of the Underground Railroad, a network of Black and white abolitionists helping African Americans find freedom. By 1861, some 30,000 freedom-seekers lived in what is now Ontario.

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Photo: M. Readey · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 · Credit & context