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The history behind the Canada we know today
I don’t remember much from my Canadian History class, but what I do remember was boring. I was in grade nine and I took it by choice, which made it even worse: dates, battles, and politics of the day. Nobody mentioned Sgt. Bill, the goat who served with the Canadian infantry in the First World…
On December 21, 1910, four officers of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police left Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories on what should have been a routine mail delivery run to Dawson City, Yukon. Eight hundred kilometres in winter. Fifteen sled dogs. Thirty days of supplies. They never arrived. Inspector Francis Fitzgerald led the patrol. The…