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May 10, 2012

The small office block that stands on the eastern edge of Toronto’s financial district is surely not one of the city’s shiniest architectural treasures, but it rates at least a footnote in the story of downtown development. Crafted around 1950 by architect James Allen Parrott, the sturdily graceful limestone and red granite cladding of a very ordinary frame eloquently recalls the Art Deco styling known as stripped classical.


May 10, 2012

Heritage advocates may want a streetcar museum but for now they are happy getting some of the rails they used to run on.


May 8, 2012

British Columbia has made a formal apology to the 22,000 Japanese-Canadians who were put in internment camps in the Second World War.


May 8, 2012

A new technology is helping preserve Aboriginal pictographs in Alberta and British Columbia. One of the goals for the project is to get Aboriginal youth in touch with their heritage.


May 7, 2012

A wallet found in a Whistler, B.C., antique store has brought together estranged family members.


May 7, 2012

The Bible of bestselling author Ralph Connor was found while a volunteer was sorting books for a sale at a Winnipeg church. Connor was arguably the most popular Canadian fiction writer in the early 1900s.


May 6, 2012

Many Canadians don't know that the Vimy Memorial in France even exists, with many mistaking the monument -- shown on Canada's forthcoming new $20 bills -- for the Twin Towers, new documents show.


May 4, 2012

Visitors to national parks and historic sites will find shorter hours and fewer services available in the spring and fall as the federal government cuts $29 million from the Parks Canada budget over the next three years.


May 3, 2012

Ron Csillag discovered where his father died in the First World War and where he is buried today.


May 2, 2012

The United Nations Headquarters in New York is being renovated, including work done by Canadian architect Ernest Cormier.

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