Articles written by Wendy Elliott
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CNR's "Radio Train" Show
In 1927 the Canadian National Railway broadcast Radio Train, the world's first educational soap opera about the adventures of a group of rail travellers.
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Wesleyan Methodist Ancestors
It is not always easy finding vital records for the 19th century Ontario. However, for Wesleyan Methodists there are three very helpful sources.
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Dorothea Palmer
The 1937-37 trial of Dorothea Palmer proved to be a landmark case in how birth control information was distributed in Canada.
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Parents' Information Bureau
Until the 1960s, it was illegal to distribute birth control information. Parents' Information Bureau risked all, and changed the lives of Canadian families and society.
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Ottawa's Underground Diefenbunker
Tour Canada's Cold War Museum near Ottawa known as the Diefenbunker, complex underground warren of protection in the event of a nuclear war.
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Flora MacDonald Denison
Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921) was an original: suffragist, journalist, radical believer in free love and birth control, and fan of spiritualism and Walt Whitman.
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Martha Black, 2nd Woman MP
Determined to find wealth in the Klondike Gold Rush, Martha Louis Munger Purdy Black instead found riches of another sort: love, friendship, adventure and a beloved home.
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Kit Coleman, Intrepid Reporter
A skilled journalist who wrote about issues and current events that touched her readers in a way most of her contemporaries did not.
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Churchill Museum, Cabinet War Room
The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms give visitors a historic peek into the major events and strategic high command in London during the dark days of World War II.
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Yerevan, Capital of Armenia
Little known Yerevan has everything the discerning traveller could want -- excellent accommodations, delicious food, magnificent vistas, and unique architecture.
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