A passion for history and sharing it with others was recognized and rewarded when heritage work volunteer Bettylou Snetselaar received an Ontario Heritage Trust Heritage Community Recognition Award in the Lifetime Achievement category.

Wayne MacDonald, an administrator at the University of Alberta, was in Winnipeg for a conference and dressed for warmer weather when the snow struck. To escape it he stepped into an antique store, where he spotted a stack of black and white photographs in Edwardian and Victorian frames. The faces staring up at him belonged to his long dead relatives, an influential Halifax clan of MacDonalds bound by marriage, friendship and political alliance to Sir Charles Tupper.

The information being compiled each year and released at the annual Grey County Black History Event is like nothing else available in Canada.

The Johnson Street Bridge, better known as the Blue Bridge, a long-time Victoria landmark designed by the same man responsible for the Golden Gate Bridge, is to be replaced. Crowds gathered in a downpour to witness the first stage of demolition, the removal of a parallel railroad deck.

This ski season is extra-special, as it includes the celebration of 50 years of skiing in the community of Fernie, B.C.

Ottawa is restricting access to federal archives and withholding several key documents on church-run residential schooling, says the Truth and Reconciliation Commission charged with exposing the dark legacy of this period in aboriginal education.

The Black Loyalist Heritage Society in Birchtown, N.S., has gathered more than $4 million to build a new interpretive centre.

Nearly 70 years after it joined the D-Day armada across the English Channel and helped launch the liberation of Europe, a Canadian frigate from the Second World War is back in British waters and open to sightseers at its London mooring for hour-long tours at 15 British pounds a pop.

It’s not entirely bad that Toronto’s insistence on “contextualism” is continuing to remind developers and architects of what their forerunners got right a hundred years ago. The problem with contextualism is that contemporary Toronto architects, while they ought to be good students of the things that have historically made cities work well, should be able to design mid-rises and high-rises without having to worry about forcing their new buildings to curtsey to old ones, says John Bentley Mays.

Reminiscences, Recipes and Remedies is a compilation of 39 Langley, B.C., authors who dish out words about food heritage.