Two Swedish researchers compiling an encyclopedia of hockey history have scored a hat trick of significant new discoveries, including what they’re calling the earliest known image of a hockey player — a well-dressed skater with a curved stick and flat-edged puck striding along England’s ice-covered Thames River in December 1796.

The monarchy has changed its role in the 50 years since Elizabeth II took the throne.

A 1943 plane that was used to train airmen in the Second World War is visiting Winnipeg's Western Canadian Aviation Museum.

Swaths of academics and historians have descended upon the Greek island of Thasos to investigate newfound airplane wreckage on the side of a mountain. But it is a local amateur sleuth who may be the closest to solving a 95-year-old mystery involving the disappearance of a Canadian First World War pilot.

Mad Men’s famous attention to detail has faltered in much to do with Québécoise character Megan and her family. To begin with, what kind of name is Megan for a Québécoise born during the Duplessis era?

A campaign is on to rename an Essex County, Ont., bridge in honour of some little-known figures from the War of 1812.

The current Lord Selkirk will be visiting Winnipeg in September to honour the bicentennial of the Selkirk Settlers. In 1812, the fifth Earl of Selkirk brought a group of settlers from Scotland to establish the Red River Colony.

Canada's iconic Peggys Cove lighthouse and hundreds of others like it across Canada could face the wrecking ball if community groups don't step forward with plans to save them by the end of May.

Canada’s History Society has officially announced the winners of the Ultimate Class Field Trip.

A Second World War fighter plane, just discovered in the Egyptian desert 70 years after it was crash-landed there by its British pilot, is generating excitement among vintage aircraft experts in Canada who suspect the long-buried Kittyhawk P-40 — literally unearthed from the sands of time — was once flown by one of this country’s great aces in the air battles of North Africa: Saskatchewan-born James “Stocky” Edwards, now 90 and living in Comox, B.C.