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Treasures Revealed: Episode 15

Discover Library and Archives Canada - December 14, 2023 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode of Treasures Revealed we follow the journey of a rare document which is considered to be the first publication in English entirely about Canada, with the help of Senior Special Collections Librarian Meaghan Scanlon. Once carelessly discarded, this broadside is later discovered i...

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 14

Discover Library and Archives Canada - November 06, 2023 18:34 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Did you know that 22% or roughly one in five Canadians under the age of 34 either hadn’t heard about the Holocaust, or were unsure if they had heard about the Holocaust? In this episode, Michael Kent delves into the significance of Raczyński’s Note, a Second World War publication regarded as th...

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 13

Discover Library and Archives Canada - October 11, 2023 14:10 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode we speak with Steve Moore about the most successful silent film in Canadian history, Back to God’s Country – a lusty tale of jealousy, murder and betrayal starring trailblazer Nell Shipman, Canada’s first female director. Tune in to discover why the restoration of this film rece...

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 12

Discover Library and Archives Canada - August 16, 2023 15:43 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode we speak with Krista Cooke about the curious absence of pregnant women in photos from the birth of photography in the 19th century up to the Second World War. Tune in to learn why the photo of Anna Jorosz Krista chose as her treasure is so remarkable!*re-edited version of previo...

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Dawson City: A Ruby in the Rough

Discover Library and Archives Canada - July 12, 2023 13:49 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In celebration of National Parks Day we have partnered with our friends at Parks Canada and have featured an episode from their wonderful new history and archaeology podcast ReCollections, in our feed. Through the remarkable lives of Madam Ruby Scott and her employees, we'll hear about Dawson's...

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 11

Discover Library and Archives Canada - May 10, 2023 13:43 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Robert Hood was only 24 in 1821, when he participated in the 1st of the infamous Franklin Expeditions. Hood was to take navigational, geographical and meteorological observations, and to make drawings of the land and of various objects of natural history. Unfortunately, Hood would not live to s...

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 9

Discover Library and Archives Canada - January 18, 2023 16:16 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In the 9th episode of Treasures Revealed, LAC Curator Forrest Pass unravels the mystery of a Masonic tracing board dating back to the early 1800s.

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 8

Discover Library and Archives Canada - November 30, 2022 14:53 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode of Treasures Revealed, Indigenous Research Archivist Elizabeth Montour relies on knowledge and instinct to decipher the story of a Kanienhkenha:ka woman she observes in a 19th century watercolour. As Elizabeth examines the painting, she imagines what life might have been like fo...

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 7

Discover Library and Archives Canada - November 14, 2022 20:19 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In the 7th episode of Treasures Revealed we speak with Senior Archivist Christine Barrass about an extraordinary scroll, or Sefer Torah, that is part of the Shearith Israel synagogue collection held at LAC. This scroll is a document hand-written in Hebrew by a scribe and measures approximately...

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 6

Discover Library and Archives Canada - October 19, 2022 13:19 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode of Treasures Revealed, we speak with Marcelle Cinq-Mars, senior military archivist in the Government Archives Division at LAC. Marcelle tells us about the amazing discovery she made while rehousing documents LAC received from the Department of National Defence.

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Bill Mason: Wilderness Artist

Discover Library and Archives Canada - May 18, 2022 14:31 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Passionate about nature and art, Bill Mason spent his whole life combining his two passions and creating beautiful, nature-inspired artworks. On today’s episode, we will discuss Bill Mason’s life and legacy with the help of three members of the Mason family: his wife, Joyce, and his two childre...

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Kahentinetha Horn: Nothing but the Truth - Part 2

Discover Library and Archives Canada - April 27, 2022 14:35 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In early 2020, we invited Indigenous activist Kahentinetha Horn and her daughter Waneek Horn-Miller to come to LAC for a visit. As we hosted them, we were thrilled to witness and record their reactions to the material in the LAC collection related to Kahentinetha’s fascinating life. They were s...

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Kahentinetha Horn: Nothing but the Truth - Part 1

Discover Library and Archives Canada - April 20, 2022 21:20 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In early 2020, we invited Indigenous activist Kahentinetha Horn and her daughter Waneek Horn-Miller to come to LAC for a visit. As we hosted them, we were thrilled to witness and record their reactions to the material in the LAC collection related to Kahentinetha’s fascinating life. They were s...

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 5

Discover Library and Archives Canada - October 27, 2021 16:40 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
LAC photo archivist Jill Delaney joins us for this fifth episode of Treasures Revealed. She will tell us about LAC’s recent acquisition of the Gabor Szilasi fonds, which covers his life and career as a photographer from 1954 to 2016.

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 4

Discover Library and Archives Canada - October 06, 2021 20:17 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In the fourth episode of Treasures Revealed, we talk to Meaghan Scanlon, Senior Special Collections Librarian, about the Halifax Gazette, the first newspaper published in the territory that would become Canada. It is the only copy known to exist of the first issue.

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 3

Discover Library and Archives Canada - September 22, 2021 14:03 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
For our next Treasures Revealed episode, we speak with LAC Government Records Archivist, and past Discover Library and Archives Canada host, Geneviève Morin. She will tell us about the marriage of art and science in early 20th century Canadian botany.

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 2

Discover Library and Archives Canada - September 01, 2021 18:17 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode of Treasures Revealed, LAC Head Photo Conservator Tania Passafiume will tell us about her discovery in the collection of a very rare type of early photograph called a pannotype. She will explain what it is, how it was made and what makes it so special and rare.

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Treasures Revealed: Episode 1

Discover Library and Archives Canada - August 11, 2021 19:54 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this new podcast series, Treasures Revealed, we’ll speak to a Library and Archives Canada employee and highlight an item that they consider a real “treasure” in the collection. For this first episode, we hear about a letter that Dominion Archivist Arthur Doughty wrote seeking reimbursement f...

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LAC is a gold mine!

Discover Library and Archives Canada - July 21, 2021 21:32 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Near the Alaskan border with Canada, nestled along the Klondike River in Yukon, sits the Klondike region. On August 16, 1896, local miners discovered gold there. When news reached the United States and southern Canada the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors, forever changing ...

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Mount Logan: Moments in Time

Discover Library and Archives Canada - January 12, 2021 14:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
High in the mountains of southwest Yukon, as far west as one can go in Canada, lies Kluane National Park and Reserve. The park is home to the country’s highest peak, the 5,959-metre Mount Logan. From its earliest documented ascent, in 1925, Mount Logan has been a continuously productive site f...

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Avro Arrow: Uncovering the Myth – Part 1

Discover Library and Archives Canada - November 03, 2020 18:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
With the creation of the A.V. Roe Canada company following the Second World War, Canada became a leader in the aerospace industry. The company developed the C-102 jetliner and the CF-100 Canuck, the first Canadian-designed military fighter aircraft. In 1953, at the height of the Cold War, the R...

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Avro Arrow: Uncovering the Myth – Part 2

Discover Library and Archives Canada - November 03, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
With the creation of the A.V. Roe Canada company following the Second World War, Canada became a leader in the aerospace industry. The company developed the C-102 jetliner and the CF-100 Canuck, the first Canadian-designed military fighter aircraft. In 1953, at the height of the Cold War, the R...

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Call to Duty: Canadian Nursing Sisters

Discover Library and Archives Canada - September 15, 2020 18:03 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
During the First World War, more than 3,000 women volunteered with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. This force was created by Canada for service overseas, with nurses working as fully enlisted officers in the specifically created all-female rank of Nursing Sister. Their dedication to their wor...

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Upcoming Episodes, 2020

Discover Library and Archives Canada - August 04, 2020 20:12 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
2020 has been an interesting year, to say the least. Due to the current circumstances, we haven’t been able to release much new content, but we wanted to give you a quick rundown on some of the things we have planned for the upcoming months.

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I leave you Éva Gauthier

Discover Library and Archives Canada - May 13, 2020 15:31 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Éva Gauthier’s musical career took her from Ottawa, Canada, to the four corners of the world. Often considered ahead of her time because of her unique style and approach, Gauthier never let the critics stop her from expressing her true artistic self. Influenced by her journeys abroad, she did n...

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Tommy Burns: The Hanover Heavyweight

Discover Library and Archives Canada - January 28, 2020 18:05 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Our guest today, Dan McCaffery, believes Tommy Burns is considered one of the best pound for pound boxers who ever lived. Measuring a mere 5’7”, Burns was the shortest man ever to hold the world heavyweight title, and the only Canadian born to do so as well. The first champion to travel the glo...

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Tom Longboat is Cogwagee is Everything

Discover Library and Archives Canada - December 23, 2019 17:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In the early 20th century, no spectator sport captivated the world like long distance running. And no runner captured the hearts of Canadians like a Six Nations Indigenous man by the name of Cogwagee in the Onondaga language, or Tom Longboat in English. From his victory at the 1907 Boston Marat...

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Canada's Continuing Memory

Discover Library and Archives Canada - November 18, 2019 17:19 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
As the custodian of our distant past and recent history, Library and Archives Canada is a key resource for all Canadians who wish to gain a better understanding of who they are, individually and collectively. Library and Archives Canada acquires, processes, preserves and provides access to our ...

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Upcoming Episodes, 2019-2020

Discover Library and Archives Canada - November 06, 2019 15:18 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
2019 has been an exciting year for us as we continue to work for you, showcasing the amazing items in our collection and the fascinating stories behind them. We wanted to give you a quick rundown on some of the things we have planned in the upcoming months.

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Bill Miner: Last of the Old Time Bandits

Discover Library and Archives Canada - August 27, 2019 17:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
On May 8th of 1906, three armed and masked men held up the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Transcontinental Express, at a place called Duck’s Station, 17 miles east of Kamloops in British Columbia. It was a botched robbery to say the least. The bandits ordered the engine and mail car uncoupled, and ...

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