A quirky Montreal landmark has won an international competition among Lego enthusiasts. Designed by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, the Habitat 67 housing complex is a unique project built for the city’s world’s fair in 1967. It was declared a historic site by Quebec in 2009.

The headstone of a Canadian airman killed in the Second World War was among hundreds smashed in Benghazi, Libya, after a mob angered by the accidental burning of Qur'ans by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan vandalized a Commonwealth cemetery.

Humankind’s earliest ancestor was a bottom feeder with a primitive backbone — not unlike some who walk the earth today — that swam off Canada’s west coast more than 500 million years ago.

In the early hours of June 10, 1940, RCMP officers began rounding up 44 Italian-Canadian men in Vancouver. Canada was at war with Italy, and these men were declared enemy aliens and sent to an internment camp in Kananaskis, Alta. More than 600 Italian Canadians were interned across the country.

Before Gimli was Gimli, Manitoba, it was known as New Iceland, a name you won’t find in too many Canadian history textbooks, but one most Icelanders know well.

The 350-year-old cobblestone streets of Old Montreal are always good for a romantic walk, but these days they hold some of Canada’s hottest commercial real estate opportunities.

The author of a new book about the history of Parliament Hill has discovered a startling connection between the 1916 fire that consumed the original Centre Block of the national legislature and the infamous Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932.

Oakville, Ontario’s protectors and preservers of local heritage were honoured at the 2011 Ontario Heritage Trust Awards ceremony.

A Victoria Cross symbolizing the “absolute fearlessness” of a Canadian medic from the First World War has been acquired by the Canadian War Museum, which now possesses more than one-third of the 94 VCs — historically, the country’s highest award for bravery — ever granted to Canadian soldiers.

Among the 20 recommendations recently released by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating the residential schools scandal, those directed to teaching the history of the period garnered the most attention. The recommendations join a long list of occasions during which Canadians have been reminded of how their educational system is letting them down when it comes to teaching them about their country’s past, says J.D.M. Stewart.