A group from Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood has come up with a proposal for the city’s soon-to-be retired metro cars: use them to build a pedestrian bridge connecting the neighbourhood to the nearby Rosemont metro station.

The idea behind rolling through green stretches of Quebec by bike was in part to feel the geography that formed the province’s industry, and to meet the people who have been part of it, rather than learning it all from a classroom course – if one was even offered.

Calgary Opera’s 2016-17 season includes the return of Filumena, John Estacio and John Murrell’s original work that tells a historic tale about forbidden love during Alberta’s prohibition years.

Stories of Japanese internment, Indian residential schools and the ’60s scoop were to be shared by the 15 “human books” at an event in Saskatoon.

Although he’s lived outside of Nova Scotia for most of his life, poet laureate and Nova Scotia native George Elliott Clarke has a voice that still resonates with the sounds and stories of his home.

In the ballet Going Home Star, by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the lead character, Annie, an urban aboriginal woman, learns through Gordon, a street person, about the history of residential schools.

The head of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa got a letter last fall from a student asking him to come to her school in Ajax, Ont., to help to argue that Sir Isaac Brock was the “Greatest Canadian Ever.” Mark O’Neill knew that if he brought Brock’s 200-year-old red army tunic — the one he died in at the Battle of Queenston Heights in 1812; fatal musket-ball hole still under the left lapel — it would make an impact on the young historians of Dr. Roberta Bondar Public School.

A new species of dinosaur about the size of a dog and possessing a lethal claw has been discovered in northwestern Alberta.

David Gordon, director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., has released an illustrated history of Ottawa’s development from the arrival of Philemon Wright in 1800 to contemporary times.

Almost $500,000 has been committed to keep the historic bridge over River Canard in tip-top shape. Originally built in 1937, the rare concrete tied arch or bowstring bridge at the Amherstburg-LaSalle border in Ontario, is the only remaining structure of this type on the county road network.