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Loose lips on a night train divulge a plot to buy up the Canadian Northwest — from Manitoba through to the Rockies and all the vast lands to the north — and sell it to the United States for $30 million.

One hundred years ago, Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce exposed the horrifying death toll among children in residential schools.

Canada's railways have always held a special place in our history and in our hearts.

Open Book: An excerpt from the adventures of David Thompson in the Northwest between 1807 and 1812.

When a delegation of four Indigenous chiefs arrived in England three hundred years ago, they created quite a stir.

In 1996, the Arctic Council limped into existence, barely noticed. Today it thrives as the principal forum in which the eight Arctic states interact and plan the increasingly important future of the Arctic.

January 11, 2015, marked the bicentennial of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth. But commemorating Canada’s first prime minister has never been easy.

Miserable. Gloomy. Freezing cold. In Canada, winter can be all these things. But in 1816, that’s how the summer unfolded — and it would take nearly seventy years before we would understand why.

The terrain is often forbidding and the climate harsh, but that hasn't discouraged some resourceful souls over the centuries from coaxing life out of Labrador's unyielding soil.

Tobacco in Alberta? The nomadic Blackfoot people cultivated it in this unlikely place long before European contact. Curiously, the beaver played a role.