While Canada's earliest prime ministers were defenders of the Jews, others were not so welcoming restricting where Jews could live.

Pearson cautioned against succumbing "to the black madness of the witch hunt" when Canada began to track down homegrown communists in the early 1950s. (National Archives of Canada, PA-126393 ...

In 1949 the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb and in reply Canada's military spending soared. In 1950, Communist North Korea invaded the U.S. backed South Korea adding further pressure on ...

The government of Canada on Saturday apologised to the Inuit of northern Quebec for the mass killing of sled dogs in the 1950s and 1960s, which devastated communities by depriving them of the ...

In the 1950s Avro Canada developed the VZ-9AV Avrocar. It was an attempt to create a craft that could take off and land vertically. The project was eventually taken over by the US military.

"This was a shameful chapter of Canada's history ... with about a third of Inuit infected with the disease in the 1950s. Some patients - including young children - were evacuated for treatment ...