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The Twenty-Five Thousand Who Stayed Behind
While the world celebrated VE Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division marched into the ruins of Germany to govern a sullen enemy and manage the chaos of…
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6,000 Rounds of Failure: The Secret Report on Canada’s WW2 Weapons
In 1944, officers gathered in a pine wood to shoot their own pistols at ammo boxes. The results—and a classified file on the despised Sten gun—exposed a…
May 9
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Eighteen Years of Whiplash: How One Report Mapped Canada’s Survival Between Wars
A forgotten 1938 government analysis reveals the devastation of the Great Depression and the fragile recovery that preceded World War II.
May 3
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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50 Percent of Children and the End of the Pioneer Era
How the 1931 Census revealed a nation where half of all young children lived in near-poverty and the large family was rapidly becoming extinct.
May 2
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The 4,000-Year Lag: Why Ancient Canada Never Built a Rome
Diamond Jenness’s lost 1937 dossier reveals the geographic curse that doomed North America’s First Nations—long before the first musket was fired.
Apr 26
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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260 Projectors: The Struggle for Visual Education
While the world embraced the screen, Depression-era Canada fought customs laws and poverty to keep the classroom lights on.
Apr 25
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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$58 Million Stolen: The Saskatchewan Judge Who Refused to Sign Ottawa’s Receipt
In 1935, a Royal Commission tried to put a price tag on a generation of Saskatchewan’s stolen soil. One judge refused to sign the receipt.
Apr 19
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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340 Tortured Veterans: The 1932 Commission That Refused Canada’s Broken POWs
Fifteen years after Ypres, a special commission in Ottawa calculated the dollar value of a rifle butt to the skull and a decade of nightmares.
Apr 18
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The Invisible Flood of 1932: How One Dam Saved Calgary from Catastrophe
In 1932, a storm dropped an ocean on the Rockies. The Bow River should have destroyed the city—but the gauges told a different story.
Apr 17
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Six Tons of Coal and One Suit a Year: Inside the Desperate 1932 Budgets of Canada’s Middle Class
A rare 1932 government dossier reveals the exact receipts, rations, and anxieties of families fighting to maintain dignity during the Great Depression.
Apr 16
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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$561,884.50 for Ghost Ships: How Canada Valued Torpedoed Lives in 1931
In 1931, one Canadian commissioner had to decide if a widow’s grief was worth $2,000 and if a sailor’s 1917 exposure caused his 1921 death.
Apr 12
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The $60 Million Briefing: Canada’s Secret Blueprint for an Empire Trade War
In 1930, a single dossier revealed Canada’s plan to seize the Pacific from American industry, using Douglas Fir and Ford Model As as ammunition.
Apr 11
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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