Book at least half a day off, or better yet, the whole day, when you plan to visit the Glenbow Museum. Five hours inside the wonderfully captivating and compelling Glenbow Museum was not enough for this history buff.
How often do you sit down to ponder what you love about culture in Calgary? Well most people never dwell on the subject at all, but on Oct. 3 and 4, 2010, 100 Calgarians gathered to do just that. The group of panelists itself was very diverse, ranging from authors, poets, singers, playwrights, filmmakers and…
The Glenbow Museum is simply one of the best places to visit in Calgary, and I’m not saying this just because I’m currently pursuing a History degree or because I am an amateur artist, but because there is always something amazing for everyone in one of the many exhibits at the Glenbow Museum. The Glenbow…
For those who understand French, here’s a little history of liberalism for you, written for a social assignment. Le libéralisme classique, une mode de vie idéalisée par plusieurs pays autour du monde, n’est pas tous ce qu’on imagine; il y a des faiblesses accidentelles et inhérentes qui le rendent moins-que-parfait. Ceci amène à des réactionnaires…
Samuel de Champlain was a wonderful draughtsman, cartographer, ethnologist, soldier, diplomat, geographer, chronicler, explorer, and French navigator. He was nicknamed the Father of New France and he just may have been related to King Henry IIII. But do you know what Champlain really was? He was an investor. Most of the important things he has…
Social Studies 30 was one of the best high school courses I could have ever taken! Well, for a military and history buff like me, learning about the interesting topics of the Cold War, totalitarianism and the many methods employed by dictators and their regimes, political ideologies from autonomous Communism to lassiez- faire Capitalism, economics,…
“We just had this amazing inner feeling of: ‘We’re going to do it’. I don’t know why… we were just cocky” – George Harrison In March of 1957, John Lennon, vocalist and guitarist, formed The Quarrymen with a couple of friends, he was only 16 at that time. Soon after, Paul McCartney, a 15 years…