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January 8, 2012

Canada’s first licensed airfield — located in Edmonton’s city centre — is celebrating its 85th anniversary.


January 7, 2012

It has been 200 years since the arrival of the Selkirk Settlers, transplanted Scots who faced starvation after they were displaced from their traditional lands by sheep. And this April marks the 100th anniversary of the Canada Grain Act, which established what we now know as the Canadian Grain Commission.


January 7, 2012

The Conservative government quietly planned to sell a pair of historic paintings by Quebec modern master Alfred Pellan after replacing them with a portrait of the Queen in the main reception area at the Department of Foreign Affairs. But it appears that after a public outcry in Quebec over the switch, the plan to sell the valuable works was spiked.


January 7, 2012

The recovery of a mysterious wooden pole at the bottom of Lake Huron is fuelling excitement among U.S. and Canadian researchers that they have found more evidence of a “lost world” of North American caribou hunters from nearly 10,000 years ago.


January 7, 2012

In her exhaustively researched new book Wet Prairie: People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba, environmental historian Shannon Stunden Bower chronicles how the province has always struggled with the competing responsibilities to create drainage to protect upstream private property and to deal with the consequences of that drainage for other private interests downstream.


January 5, 2012

A magnanimous gesture by U.S. heritage advocates to commemorate enemy soldiers killed during a key War of 1812 battle on American soil is shedding fresh light on the sacrifices of Canadian, British and First Nations troops in the cross-border conflict nearly 200 years ago.


January 3, 2012

It was hailed a year ago by Heritage Minister James Moore as a “unique” work of art with deep connections to Canadian history. The historical link remains, but it turns out the so-called “Ptarmigan Vase” — an elaborate vessel of silver, gold and copper that was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada for a whopping $650,000 at an auction last January in New York — isn’t a one-of-a-kind treasure after all.


January 3, 2012

The Canadian Museum of Civilization has acquired at auction in Britain a dramatic watercolour by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Admiral Sir George Back, whose drawings and paintings are recognized as an invaluable visual record of the early exploration of the Canadian Arctic.

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