The only known adult portrait of Sir Isaac Brock created from life — a pastel image completed in Quebec just before the War of 1812 made the British general a mythic figure in Canada's history — has been painstakingly restored in his native Guernsey and returns to this country for the first time in 200 years as a bicentennial showpiece.

An enigmatic tribute to one of Canada’s most controversial governors general has become Britain's newest tourist attraction — 86 years after a boy's tragic plunge from the top of the Penshaw Monument ended public access to the soaring, imitation Greek temple honouring Lord Durham.

For nearly 40 years, the views of downtown Halifax from the city’s historic Citadel Hill have been held sacred, with Haligonians protecting sweeping vistas of their harbour and the peninsula with a series of strict rules. But significant change is in the wind.

Former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Brian Peckford, a key player in the negotiations that led to the patriation of Canada’s Constitution and the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms 30 years ago, says the history of how the landmark deal was struck has become “badly mangled and distorted” and requires a major rewrite.

Kids these days were sailing along through life just fine thinking that James Cameron’s 1997 epic Titanic was a grandiose, if cheesy, love story set on a fictional ship, but with all the news of the disaster’s 100th anniversary came the iceberg of truth — and embarrassing admissions such as this one: “I didn’t know Titanic actually happened, thought it was just a film.”

The Conservative government has been notably silent on the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Stephen Harper says there’s a reason for that.

The Harper government says it will mark the 30th anniversary of the patriation of the Constitution – by issuing a couple of news releases.

A bargain hunter cruising a Vancouver garage sale has hit the jackpot after spending $100 on artworks that turned out to be by two iconic Canadian painters and are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Grimsby Historical Society has invited a spokesperson for the Mackenzie Printery & Newspaper Museum to give a talk on the history of printing in early Upper Canada.

York Factory, the Hudson’s Bay Company’s biggest and most-fought-over northern trading post, was the headquarters of a fur-trading empire that spread across 3.3 million square kilometres.