Level 30 History

An epidemic of bullets ordered by the Prime Minister kills off most of the elk in Prince Albert National Park in 1959.

Édouard Beaupré of Willow Bunch is exploited in life and death because of his extraordinary size.

A farmer in land-locked Outlook, Saskatchewan builds a ship and plans to sail home to Finland.

An RCMP undercover agent disguised as a Regina house painter infiltrates the local Communist Party of Canada until his cover is blown.

Almighty Voice slaughters a government cow to feed his family in 1895 and becomes one of Canada's most wanted outlaws when he kills a Mountie during his escape.

Prince Albert is forced into bankruptcy because of an ill-conceived plan to build a massive dam on a nearby river.

Oklahoma Blacks migrate to Saskatchewan in 1910 only to face the same racism they had been trying to escape.

Visiting pilots to Moose Jaw's British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and local youths riot in 1944 over the attention of local girls.

Saskatoon's Ethel Catherwood wins gold at the 1928 Olympics and then turns her back on her sport and her country.

Saskatchewan's first premier, Walter Scott, suffers from manic-depression and spends more time out of the country seeking a cure than he does running the province.

Prime Minister Mackenzie King promises to create a national park in exchange for a safe seat in the 1926 election.

Saskatchewan has a provincial police force from 1918-1929. Its primary job was to enforce the unpopular prohibition laws.

A British couple misses their passage on the Titanic only to be killed three months later in the 1912 Regina Cyclone.

For more than a hundred years many First Nations children were taken away from their families, and forced to attend residential schools. In 2008, the Canadian government apologizes for the suffering and the abuse many experienced. This video explores the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commi...

After decades of waiting, Aboriginal Canadians receive a formal apology from the federal government on June 11, 2008. This event in Canadian history recognizes the loss of culture caused by the church-run residential schools that thousands of Aboriginal children were forced to attend. It also ack...