On 11 March 1864, just before midnight, the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed and a great flood surged through parts of... Read More
On Monday, 17 October 1814, between five and six o’clock in the evening, a large vat in the Mr. Henry... Read More
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The ship Pendragon, an iron vessel of 1278 tons register, was owned by Messrs MacDiarmid, Greenshields, and Co., of Drury-buildings,... Read More
Long before the Europeans came to North America, the Mississippi River was used by the native people to travel from... Read More
Just after eight o’clock on the evening of 9 April 1904, a policeman walking his beat in the cold and... Read More
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‘A light on the south end of Blackwater Bank is absolutely required to prevent the frequent shipwrecks on that bank.’... Read More
In Northern Ontario, the unusually hot and dry conditions that had prevailed throughout the summer of 1922 continued unabated into... Read More
Nestled into the side of Turtle Mountain in the Crowsnest Pass area of the Albert District of the Northwest Territories... Read More
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They said it might rain; they said it might be windy; but they never really thought that Hurricane Hazel would... Read More
On Wednesday evening, 11 April 1877, as the miners were getting ready to leave the Ty Newydd Colliery at the end... Read More