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
The summer of 1816 has been called ‘the summer that never was’, ‘the poverty year’ and ‘eighteen hundred and froze... Read More
Nestled into the side of Turtle Mountain in the Crowsnest Pass area of the Albert District of the Northwest Territories... Read More
In Northern Ontario, the unusually hot and dry conditions that had prevailed throughout the summer of 1922 continued unabated into... 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
Long before the Europeans came to North America, the Mississippi River was used by the native people to travel from... Read More
In mid-August of 1859, astronomers were excited by the appearance of a large solar spot on the sun which first... 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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The ship Pendragon, an iron vessel of 1278 tons register, was owned by Messrs MacDiarmid, Greenshields, and Co., of Drury-buildings,... Read More