As the Conservative critic for Canadian heritage and national historical sites, York-Simcoe MP Peter Van Loan has seen one of his first victories: The House of Commons Standing Committee for Canadian Heritage has adopted a motion for a study into the issues facing small museums in Canada.

Many startups have called a 100-year-old Windsor, Ont., building home since it reopened for business five years ago — and it’s getting ready to welcome another.

With a history dating to 1856, the Cotton-Hawksworth House is one of the oldest dwellings in Mississauga, Ont. The house is named after entrepreneur Robert Cotton, who sailed to Canada from Ireland in the 1830s.

After decades of being hidden away in a storage room in the Northwest Territories, more than 8,000 Inuit artifacts will soon be put on display at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

A historic underground surprise may prompt some extra work before construction of a new school can begin in Edmonton.

It’s known as Halifax’s grand boulevard: a street filled with large estates that once housed the who’s who of the city. But now some people are worried that Young Avenue’s mansions could face a wrecking ball from developers eyeing the expensive properties.

Against the backdrop of annual Heritage Day celebrations at city hall, Mayor Jim Watson rejected a community group’s call for a moratorium on further demolitions of heritage buildings in Ottawa’s oldest neighbourhood.

Douglas Baldwin has just published Cobalt: Canada’s Forgotten Silver Boom Town, a 380-page, lavishly illustrated account of the silver-mining town.

The Diefenbunker Museum is joining forces with Ottawa adventure company Escape Manor to launch what they’re calling the world’s largest escape room.

Heritage Toronto – an arm’s-length charitable agency of the city – has begun to offer “Century House” plaques that double as address markers for homes that are at least 100 years old.