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As the Fathers of Confederation negotiated unity, their unmarried daughters and sisters hoped for alliances of a different kind.  

Pirate Maria Lindsey Cobham sent waves of fear through sailors in 1700s Canada.

The old buildings of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have a checkered past. Is their shady heritage worth saving?

What began as a ‘Victorian gentleman’s club’ one hundred years ago has evolved into the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada we know today.

Ten creative and innovative contributions Canadians have made to our daily lives.

Nine innings of stories you’ve probably never heard about baseball in Canada. 

Seventy-five years after the Second World War, the Dutch are determined to keep alive the legacy of their Canadian liberators.

In the Great War, the Canadian state found itself fighting two fronts. And the historical irony is striking: while thousands of working-class men and women were marched off to Europe, ostensibly to defend the rights and freedoms of democracy against tyranny, such highly prized ideals were routinely—and often severely—violated at home.

When things went wrong in seventeenth-century Quebec, authorities were not above blaming black magic.

The Mohawk of Kahnawake were renowned for their skill and agility when it came to high-steel construction. But in 1907, they were the hardest hit when the Quebec Bridge collapsed.