A rare, 158-year-old book detailing the ill-fated, 19th-century voyage of the Franklin Expedition search vessel HMS Investigator — illustrated with eight famous images by one of the ship’s senior officers — has come to auction in Britain, where it’s expected to sell for about $20,000.

Canada Post is issuing new stamps to mark Black History Month, including one that honours a former American slave who became a pioneer of Alberta’s ranching industry.

Melting icefields on Baffin Island, one of the clearest signs of climate change on Earth today, have yielded the strongest evidence yet for the timing and cause of another major climate event from the planet’s past: the so-called Little Ice Age, a sudden and mysterious cooling of the globe that began about 700 years ago.

A group in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, wants to build an outdoor museum to celebrate Chief Tecumseh. The $4-million interpretive centre would be built on the site of the Battle of the Thames, where the Shawnee chief was killed during the War of 1812.

As a celebration to kick off the bicentennial of the War of 1812, Toronto declared January 28 Queen’s York Rangers Day. The Queen’s York Rangers, part of the Army Reserve formation for the GTA, are the regiment most associated with the War of 1812 — they built Fort York, were the first regiment in Toronto, and are credited with taking on a lion’s share of the war’s battles.

A time capsule buried at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931 and newly revealed contains an NHL rule book, a municipal code and a tiny carved ivory elephant, the symbolism of which remains a mystery.

Windsor, Ontario’s Community Museum will feature an artifact that may have been part of one of the most significant battles fought during the War of 1812.

A long-lost piece of Canadian cinematic history, rediscovered and repatriated from a British film archive 93 years after it captured some of the earliest footage of daily life in northern Canada, is being shown again in this country as part of a new documentary project that retraces a pioneering film crew's 1919 journey to fur-trading posts on Baffin Island and other remote locations.

One of the world's early documentaries featured unique footage of the lives of Arctic fur trappers in 1919. After long being forgotten, it's now been restored for modern audiences in Canada, including communities descended from those featured in the silent film.

Covehead, directly north of Charlottetown and just down the road from Green Gables, is on what lighthouse preservation advocates call “The Doomsday List.” Along with more than 500 others, it is threatened with being sold off or torn down unless communities step in to save them.