Category Archives: Atlantic History

Montreal Walking Tour: Towers of Grain

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Jim Clifford and Stéphane Castonguay will lead a walking tour on Sunday June 16 at 7pm starting at Victoria Square in Montreal. Towers of Grain: Feeding Edwardian Britain Silo number 1, built in 1902 in the Port of Montreal, linked the burgeoning wheat farms on the Prairies with the urban markets in the United Kingdom. New industrial-scale flour mills were… Read more »

Uncovering the History of the Atlantic Region: What’s the Acadiensis School’s Legacy?

Paul W. Bennett History matters more than most of us recognize unless and until it directly affects us. Yet it shapes in subtle and unconscious ways how provinces and communities are perceived in the past and present, and how they confront the future.  That applies especially in the case of Atlantic Canada, lying “Down East” and, until the past fifty… Read more »