Sixty-two years ago today, on June 7, 1958, five young RCMP officers were drowned when their boat capsized on Lake Simcoe near Georgina Island. The tragedy made national headlines. Here, RCMP Chaplin and avid historian Gerry McMillan describes what happened that fateful night and in the days that followed. Owing to the COVID-19 restrictions, we were not able to videotape Gerry in person, but he told us the story over the phone. | Orillia Museum of Art & History

Patriots, Loyalists, enslaved people, Indigenous nations — the American Revolution was everyone’s story. And they all saw something worth fighting for. The American Revolution, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, premieres November 16. | PBS

39K views · 1.7K reactions | A story 250 years in the making. The American Revolution, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt premieres November 16. | PBS | Facebook