The summer of 2013 could see the ship known as the Maud, designed and sailed by famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, raised from the bottom of the Nunavut harbour and floated back to the country of her birth after Jan Wangaard persuaded the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board to reverse an earlier decision denying an export permit.

As Canadians race along Interstate 95 through Jacksonville, many passing over the St. Johns River and bound for south Florida, they likely have no idea the wide waterway conceals a bit of Canadian history and a huge cache of Civil War artifacts.

A Norwegian group has asked the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board to revisit a decision in December denying an export permit for Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s three-mast ship Maud from the Arctic, after residents of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, opposed losing a treasured artifact that has become a tourist attraction in the far north.

As one of the most historic spots in Canada, the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City has long maintained a strict policy to ban commercial, for-profit activities from its hallowed ground. But come September, it will be making an exception — and for none other than the Material Girl.

A team of five Canadian scientists has identified two new species of dinosaurs from the famous fossil beds of southern Alberta, including one that points to the pivotal North American evolution of a family of pint-sized, plant-eating creatures related to the triceratops.

A national group of architects is upset over the updated plan for Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park, claiming it is bland, lacks character and is missing key pieces from its original plan. A letter to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says the park’s latest blueprints are missing sculptures, a public space and a historical walk.

Two hundred years ago this June, the still-new nation of the United States reopened hostilities against its bothersome British adversaries, and the War of 1812 began its long march into Canadian history. Recently, on a bitingly cold, sleet-filled day, a University of Guelph lecture-hall complex played the part of an 1812 marketplace.

In the 1960s, it was a hub for parties, music and intense discussion. Guests included U.S. architect Buckminster Fuller, developer of the geodesic dome, and prominent Canadian artists Michael Snow, Jack Shadbolt and Eleanor Milne. Pierre Trudeau, then Canada’s justice minister, performed elegant late-night dives into the cliffside pool. But today, the house in Aylmer, Que., is boarded up and at risk of demolition by the National Capital Commission.

The house that was constructed and inhabited for more than 40 years by one of Canada’s finest poets, Al Purdy, soon may be lost to the public, even demolished. Efforts to preserve it have so far failed to raise enough cash.

Four years after dissuading the city from allowing an apartment tower to rise at Winnipeg’s birthplace, the Friends of Upper Fort Garry want to use the same land as a temporary surface parking lot.