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It Happened in Canada

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Current status / schedule
  
defunct

Author
  
Gordon Johnston

Genre(s)
  
non-fiction, history

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Fisher, Doc and Raider, Space Moose, Deflocked, The Other Coast

It Happened in Canada was a syndicated Canadian cartoon feature by Gordon Johnston that presented Canadian facts and achievements in a manner similar to Ripley's Believe It or Not!. As many as 65 newspapers in Canada carried the comic during its run from 1967 to 1980s. Some episodes featured relatively obscure details about Prime Ministers such as R. B. Bennett and John Diefenbaker.

Works

Several collections of the comic were published as books:

  • Johnston, Gordon; Al Oliver (1967). It Happened in Canada. London, Ontario: Algor Features. 
  • Johnston, Gordon (1971). Johnston's It Happened in Canada. Toronto Star Reader Service. 
  • Johnston, Gordon (c. 1976). More It Happened in Canada. Scholastic-TAB. 
  • Johnston, Gordon (c. 1976). Still More It Happened in Canada. Scholastic-TAB. 
  • Johnston, Gordon (1983). It Happened in Canada. Methuen. 
  • Johnston, Gordon (c. 1983). It Happened in Western Canada. Western Producer. 
  • Johnston, Gordon (1991). It Happened in Canada. Toronto: Scholastic Canada. ISBN 0590740695. 
  • References

    It Happened in Canada Wikipedia