A handwritten 134-year-old letter in which Canadian telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell sketches a “one-of-a-kind” picture of his invention has sold for more than $90,000 at a U.S. auction.

The CBC is quietly dismantling its archives of LPs and CDs across Canada — a cultural treasure trove built over decades — even as it prepares to launch a major new music service online.

Can Canadian politics learn anything from old dead prime ministers? Christopher Moore suggests considering how the first prime minister spent his 70th birthday.

The owners of Vancouver’s beloved and now defunct video rental institution Videomatica have ensured that their enormous and historically important collection will remain intact. The $1.7-million collection of classic, Canadian, foreign, rare, and other films will be housed and preserved by the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, in a donation/purchase deal brokered by one of the city’s leading philanthropists.

The War of 1812 may have been 200 years and 100 kilometres removed from Ontario’s Waterloo Region and Wellington County, but the bicentennial of this conflict from Canada’s early history is landing there with a bang, thanks to academic ponderings, myth-busting, imaginings, costumes and dancing.

He created what may be Canada's single most important artwork — the National Gallery’s The Death of General Wolfe — and now a 232-year-old self-portrait painted by the renowned Anglo-American artist Benjamin West is set to leave the country after spending much of the past century in a posh Halifax social club.

The University of Manitoba could get a grant of $10,000 from the city of Winnipeg to help pay for the installation of a work of art that once hung in the city’s airport terminal.

Canadian scientists probing ancient chemical deposits on the shores of a High Arctic lake have shed new light on the greatest mass extinction in Earth history — the “Great Dying” that wiped out about 90 per cent of the planet’s species 250 million years ago.

Dozens of lighthouses on P.E.I. could be demolished after they are decommissioned by the federal government if no one steps up to care for them before May 31.

A clock owned by one of P.E.I.’s first Loyalist settlers has come home to Summerside. The 238-year-old mahogany grandfather clock, with a hand-painted face, is on display in the foyer of Summerside City Hall.