Inside the soon-to-open Canadian History Hall are potent national symbols like an astrolabe said to have belonged to explorer Samuel de Champlain, the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and a T-shirt worn by Terry Fox.
Visitors can shelter under a symbolic family tree that represents the more than 600 descendants of one of the brave “king’s daughters” who helped people New France or walk into a century-old Ukrainian Catholic church plucked from Alberta.
But throughout the immersive story of a nation at the Canadian Museum of History, there are sobering objects, like the handcuffs Métis leader Louis Riel wore to …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
