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I teamed up with the fine folks at CBC to look at the *real* history behind #MurdochMysteries
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76 years ago today, June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver, led D Company of Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno beach. He would be shot 6 times, survive and go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.
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September is coming.
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On June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver, British Columbia, led D Company of Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno beach for Canada. He would be shot 6 times, survive and go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.
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Three old friends. Were they part of your life at one point?
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Original Canadian Red Cross Water Safety Level Badges
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Quebec born brothers, Norm and Neil Macdonald, in Valcartier in 1964. Norm would go on to a successful comedy career while Neil would become a journalist for the CBC. Norman Gene Macdonald passed away of cancer today at the age of 61.
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Did you watch Wok With Yan?
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Wayne Gretzky in “The Young and the Restless” in 1981.
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Did you watch Wok with Yan?
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A 1973 $1 bill. Do you still have any?
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Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae "In Flanders Fields" poem printed in 1918
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Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and friends at Gordon Lightfoot's home in Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood in 1975.
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Did you ever eat at one?
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Did you win any of these?
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Terry Fox receiving the Order of Canada in 1980
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The Canadian 3rd Division approaching the shore at Bernières, Nan sector at Juno Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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The legendary “Wok with Yan” cooking show in the 1980s. Did you watch it?
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Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and friends at Gordon Lightfoot's home in Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood in 1975.
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Any familiar?
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Canadian actor, John Franklin Candy, passed away 30 years ago tomorrow. What is your favourite movie or show of his?
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You know this commercial.
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I bet you remember what these places smelled like.
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Did you ever fly with Wardair?
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June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan of Vancouver, led D Company of Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno beach. He would be shot 6 times, survive and go on to become Scotty on Star Trek.
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Where did you take swim lessons?
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Banff, NWT around 1890. Later named Alberta.
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CBC’s Wok with Yan in the 1980s and 1990s. Did you watch?
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Did you win any of these?
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Winnipeg, Manitoba born athlete, Terrance Stanley Fox, during his marathon of hope run. A Canadian hero.
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Ken Dryden in net as a kid in the 1950s.
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Ernie Coombs and puppeteer Judith Lawrence with puppets Casey and his dog Finnegan in 1987. Did you or your kids watch?
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The Littlest Hobo(s) in the 1980s. The dogs would alternate during the filming of the CTV series.
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The view of Detroit, Michigan from Windsor, Ontario in 1929.
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Banff, Alberta in the 1950s. credit: Fred Herzog
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How many times did you see this ad?
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Expo 86 in Vancouver. Did you go?
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A 1989 Ford Mustang used by the RCMP in Saskatchewan.
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The Wild Mouse at Vancouver’s PNE In the 1990s. Have you ever been on one?
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Canadian soldiers preparing to head back to Vancouver after Nazi surrender while in the Netherlands in May, 1945.
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A Saskatchewan Grain Elevator being moved in 1979. photo credit: Jerry Kambeitz/Macleans magazine.
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Vancouver in 1985.
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The Vancouver Canucks playing the Detroit Red Wings in Detroit during the 1970/71 season.
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Calgary, Alberta in the 1940s.
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Iconic Canadian actor, Gordon Pinsent, has passed away at 92. What is your favourite role of his?
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Do you know what this is?
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Not all hero’s wear capes
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Infantrymen are seen heading ashore from HMCS Prince Henry off the Normandy beachhead in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. 80 years ago tomorrow.
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Terry Fox and a young boy with a prosthetic leg during his Marathon of Hope. Terry Fox would have turned 65 this week.
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Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks playing a show in Port Elgin, Ontario in 1963. A young Robbie Robertson on guitar. Robertson passed away today at 80.
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Terry Fox is greeted by his mother Betty in a surprise reunion on Highway 2 near Whitby, Ontario on July 10th, 1980
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The P.N.E in the 1970s in Vancouver
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Did you or your kids watch?
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If you’re from the West Coast of a certain age you likely shopped at one of these on Boxing Day.
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One of the hottest Canadian bands of the early 1980s.
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Did you watch The Urban Peasant?
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A car driving towards Vancouver on the Sea to Sky Highway in the 1950s
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Hauling grain to Vulcan, Alberta in 1928.
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BC Lions linebacker, Carl Weathers, in the early 1970s at Empire Stadium.
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Vancouver in the 1950s. credit: Fred Herzog
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One of the most iconic Canadian hockey players of all time. Albert.
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A drive across the Granville Street bridge in Vancouver in the mid 1950s.
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Canadian actor, John Candy, passed away 30 years ago. What is your favourite film or show of his?
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Manitoba orbit highway garbage cans in the 1970s.
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Canadian candy of the past. What was your favourite?
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Did you watch The Urban Peasant?
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John Candy and his daughter in the 1980s.
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A Greg Girard photo of Vancouver from the 1970s
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Classic
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Banff, NWT in 1887.
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July 1st, 1967 in Ottawa.
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A menu from one of the original "Keg'n Cleaver" restaurant in North Vancouver in the 1970s. Now named The Keg.
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Calgary, Alberta in the 1970s.
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Did you ever eat at a Scott's Chicken Villa's KFC in Ontario?
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A copy of John McCrae's 1915 Poem, In Flanders Fields, published in 1918. #lestweforget
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The Beachcombers. Did you watch?
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A look at Expo 67 in Montreal. credit: British Pathe
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Gord Downie would have been 58 years old today. What is your favourite Hip song?
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A 16-year-old Wayne Gretzky has breakfast at McDonald’s on Jan. 15, 1978 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
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Choose one.
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Trail, BC in 1977.
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Manitoba orbit highway garbage cans in the 1970s.
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The original Boston Pizza and Spaghetti House in Edmonton, Alberta in the 1960s. Named after Bill Boston, a random neighbour living near the location.
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How many can you name?
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A McDonald’s birthday party caboose in Vancouver in the 1990s at Boundary road and Lougheed.
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Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae and his dog, Bonneau, in 1914 in Europe during WWI. McCrae would write "In Flanders Fields" the following year.
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Tim Horton playing for the Buffalo Sabres against the Leafs in the 1970s.
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Canadian actor, Matthew Perry, and his step father, Keith Morrison. Perry passed away today at 54.
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Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948
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Downtown Vancouver in the 1970s. What has changed?
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The Vancouver Canucks playing the Detroit Red Wings in Detroit during the 1970-71 season.
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Canadian soldiers study a German plan of the beach during D-Day landing operations in Normandy on June 6, 1944. 80 years ago tomorrow. c/o Library and Archives of Canada.
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A football match between Canadians and Americans in London, England during WWII in 1944. The game, known as the “Tea Bowl”, drew over 30,000 spectators just months before D-Day. Canada would win 16-6.
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Did you ever have a CCM bike?
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This International Certificate of Vaccination was issued in the 1970s by Quarantine Services, from the Department of National Health and Welfare Canada. The booklet was, like a passport, a standard travel document required by many
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