Canadian icon, Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr, of Orillia, Ontario passed away one year ago today at 84. What is your favourite song of his?

A small and largely unconnected fact: Eric Clapton’s Canadian father, Edward Fryer, died at Sunnybrook hospital as well - in 1985.

“O Canada” 🔥

A Canadian tourism ad from the 1980s

The story of Tom Thomson released in 1944. credit: NFB

👀👀👀 Norther Dancer 👏

Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco at Expo 67 in Montreal

CBC radio announcer, Bill Reid, in Toronto in 1948. Reid would later focus on art, becoming a legendary Haida visual artist. Reid, born in Victoria to an American father and Haida mother, passed away in Vancouver in 1998 at 78.

West Coast Haida artist, Bill Reid's, 'Children of the Raven' in 1977

The Maple Leafs playing the Vancouver Canucks in December, 1973

The original Boston Pizza and Spaghetti House in Edmonton, Alberta in the 1960s. Named after Bill Boston, a random neighbour living near the location.

A man in Swan River, Manitoba in 1956

The Scots in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1946. credit: NFB

A brief look at a Saskatchewan Pool Elevator in the early 1980s. credit: nfb

Quebec Nordiques playing an exhibition game against the Philadelphia Blazers in Quebec in 1972 during their first WHA season. The Blazers would become the Vancouver Blazers shortly after. Note Maurice Richard as the coach of the Nordiques - something he did only a few times.

Expo 67 in Montreal in 1967

An Astronaut suit at the American exhibit in Montreal during Expo 67 in 1967

Sun Life Buildings in Montreal in the 1920s or 1930s

Mont-Tremblant in Quebec in 1961

The view North up Bay towards City Hall from Front in 1930