Backgrounders
Below is a list of backgrounders for new Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC) designations since 2018, as well backgrounders for designations that have had a plaque unveiled as of 2021 via social media or a public ceremony.
HSMBC Plaque unveilings
New Designations
October 21, 2020
September 1, 2020
- The Residential School System
- The former Portage La Prairie Indian Residential School in Manitoba
- The former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia
July 31, 2020
- Larry Gains (1900-1983)
- Richard Pierpoint (c. 1744–c. 1838)
- The Enslavement of African People in Canada (c. 1629–1834)
- West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967)
August 21, 2019
- Donald Strathearn Rawson (1905–1961)
- German U-Boat Attacks at Bell Island, 1942
- Meshikamau-shipu Travel Route, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Newfoundland National War Memorial, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Thomas Adams (1871–1940)
- Tse’K’wa, Fort St. John, British Columbia
- Uplands, Oak Bay, British Columbia
July 31, 2019
- Curé Antoine Labelle (1833-1891)
- David Dunlap Observatory, Richmond Hill, ON
- Thomas George “Tommy” Prince (1915–1977)
- Early Commercial Radio Broadcasting in Canada, 1918-1932
- Ducks Unlimited Canada
- Spadina, Toronto, Ontario
- The Historic Village of Val-Jalbert, Chambord, Quebec
- Winnipeg Falcons Hockey Club
June 20, 2019
- de Gannes-Cosby House, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
- Ludger Duvernay (1799-1852)
- Onondeyoh (Frederick Ogilvie Loft) (1861-1934)
- Francis Pegahmagabow (1889-1952)
- Miners’ Union Hall, Rossland, British Columbia
- Vancouver Japanese Language School, Vancouver, BC
October 4, 2018
- Construction of the PEI Railway
- Hart Massey House, Ottawa, Ontario
- Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway) (1818–1869)
- Léo-Ernest Ouimet (1877-1972)
- Truro Old Normal College, Truro, Nova Scotia
- Park House, Amherstburg, Ontario
March 27, 2018
- Henry Youle Hind (1823-1908)
- The Spanish Flu in Canada, 1918-1920
- La Petite-Ferme du cap Tourmente, Saint-Joachim, Quebec
- Expo 67
- Stratford Festival
- Reader Rock Garden, Calgary, AB
- Early Science in Canada’s North and the Hudson’s Bay Company (1768-ca. 1810)
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- The Dionne Quintuplets
- The Universal Negro Improvement Association of Canada (UNIA)
- Mary Grannan (1900-1975)
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991)
January 12, 2018
- Beinn Bhreagh Hall, Baddeck, Nova Scotia
- Central Memorial Library and Park, Calgary, Alberta
- Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Moncton, NB
- Vice Admiralty Court of Halifax
- Discovery of Insulin
- Edward Alexander Partridge (1861-1931)
- Ernest Cormier (1885-1980)
- The Red River Expedition of 1870
- Helen Creighton (1899-1989)
- Mabel Hubbard Bell (1857-1923)
- Cormier House, Montréal, QC
- Mina Benson Hubbard Ellis (1870-1956)
- John and Olive Diefenbaker Museum, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
- Ozias Leduc (1864-1955)
- Roger Gaudry Building, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC
- Rose Fortune (c.1774-1864)
- Viola Desmond (1914-1965)