Articles written by Wendy Elliott

In 1927 the Canadian National Railway broadcast Radio Train, the world's first educational soap opera about the adventures of a group of rail travellers.

Mar 6, 2008 - Wendy Elliott

It is not always easy finding vital records for the 19th century Ontario. However, for Wesleyan Methodists there are three very helpful sources.

Mar 4, 2008 - Wendy Elliott

The 1937-37 trial of Dorothea Palmer proved to be a landmark case in how birth control information was distributed in Canada.

Mar 4, 2008 - Wendy Elliott

Until the 1960s, it was illegal to distribute birth control information. Parents' Information Bureau risked all, and changed the lives of Canadian families and society.

Mar 3, 2008 - Wendy Elliott

Tour Canada's Cold War Museum near Ottawa known as the Diefenbunker, complex underground warren of protection in the event of a nuclear war.

Mar 3, 2008 - Wendy Elliott

Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921) was an original: suffragist, journalist, radical believer in free love and birth control, and fan of spiritualism and Walt Whitman.

Mar 3, 2008 - Wendy Elliott

Determined to find wealth in the Klondike Gold Rush, Martha Louis Munger Purdy Black instead found riches of another sort: love, friendship, adventure and a beloved home.

Feb 25, 2008 - Wendy Elliott

The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms give visitors a historic peek into the major events and strategic high command in London during the dark days of World War II.

Dec 19, 2007 - Wendy Elliott

Little known Yerevan has everything the discerning traveller could want -- excellent accommodations, delicious food, magnificent vistas, and unique architecture.

Dec 13, 2007 - Wendy Elliott