Raynee Smith Miss Pre-Teen Six Nations hands out bread and cheese in the arena at Six Nations Monday. The annual event celebrates a time when Queen Victoria gave gifts to the indigenous people who ...

For more than 150 years, Six Nations has marked its ties to the Crown through an annual giveaway of bread and cheese. It’s curious. It’s contradictory. And for one day a year, it makes ...

Even with 8,500 bricks of cheddar wrapped and ready, Shirley Johnson was sure they were going to run out. She was among dozens of Six Nations of the Grand River volunteers distributing large ...

The origins of Bread and Cheese Day in Six Nations goes back to the War of 1812. CBC Podcasts · Posted: May 25, 2023 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 25, 2023.

It’s Bread and Cheese Day. For more than 150 years, it’s how the Haudenosaunee community in southern Ontario has marked what others call Victoria Day – with a quirky fair-like festival.