Historic Sites

This National Heritage Site has beauty in spades.

Grassroots efforts to save covered bridges.

A nearly 400-year-old stolen painting graced the walls of a few locations — including the University of Toronto — before being returned.

Set to reopen in 2026, Calgary’s Glenbow Museum will boast more public access to art and culture.

How a Canadian wheeler-dealer lured the most spectacular horse race of the century to the boondocks of southern Ontario. 
 

How Ernest Rutherford’s Montreal research won the world’s top science prize.
 

Braving turbulent seas, Nova Scotia fishermen saved some four hundred people from the doomed SS Atlantic.

All aboard to celebrate Canada’s history with Rail Travel Tours, travelling Canada by rail to the Atlantic, Pacific or Arctic coast.

First used by the Dene, Slave River salt deposits became a critical resource for HBC fur traders. 

Defying blackflies and permafrost, Cree hunters and English fur traders established Ontario’s northernmost community.