Tag: canadian history

Threads That Tie Us: An Oshwal Odyssey

The Halari Oshwals are a small community dispersed around the...

The Stand

Mixing animation with a wealth of archival footage, Chris Auchter’s...

The Little Church That Could

Amidst a mostly Catholic community, a small tiny Anglican church...

Killing the Indian in the Child

The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members...

La guerre des hold-up

Jonathan Roberge dives into the world of Montréal crime during...

Thrown into Canada

This documentary explores the history of Canada’s first major migration...

The Secret Order

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier,...

Jacques Cartier, un Malouin au Canada

The Twentieth Century

Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes...

The Hector: From Scotland to Nova Scotia

The story of the 1773 highland migrants who left Scotland...

Blackfly

Who would have thought that Canadian history could be so...

Being Canadian

What does it actually mean to be Canadian? This humorous...

The Arrow

The story of the people building the AVRO Arrow, an...

The Klondike Gold Rush

Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining...

Surviving Eugenics

Surviving Eugenics is a documentary about the history and ongoing...

Ikwe

A young Ojibwa girl from 1770 marries a Scottish fur...

First Journey, Fort William

Set in 1815, this is the dramatic story of a...

The Relationship

This film explores how Canada wavers between rejection and acceptance...

Rendezvous Canada, 1606

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who...

We Were Children

For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of...

Hatsumi

In Japanese, “shi kata ga nai” means “it can't be...

Women in the Shadows

Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to...

Africville: Can't Stop Now

Located on the northern shore of Bedford Basin, Africville was...

The Fallen Feather: Indian Industrial Residential Schools and Canadian Confederation

Between 1879 and 1986, upwards of 100,000 children in Canada...