The federal government is making entry into the national parks and historic sites free in 2017 as a way to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

After a badger led Brian Rozmahelto to a burial site on his organic farm outside Viking, Alta., last August, an archeological team determined that the bones he discovered likely belonged to a young aboriginal girl of some prominence who died in the 1830s.

Alain Miguelez’s new book, Transforming Ottawa, allows readers to graze through hundreds of historical photos and to marvel at how much the city has changed.

On St-Gabriel St. in Old Montreal, Françis Lemaire and his team of mortar-stained men are slowly rebuilding the street as it was done 200 years ago, one granite stone at a time.

At the top of Beacon Hill, the city of Victoria is hiding an unsightly part of its heritage behind a tangle of overgrown shrubs. Now the city plans to repatriate the site to the local First Nations, who will build a traditional longhouse.

Rusty and covered in graffiti, a boxcar that has sat neglected in Kelowna, B.C.’s industrial district is thought to be the last of its kind and will soon be moved to the Revelstoke Railway Museum.

A controversial proposal to build a 13-storey condo building on an empty lot in Vancouver’s Chinatown has ignited opposition from a fresh set of organizers and volunteers who are working to keep alive “the history of Chinatown and the contributions made by many Chinese-Canadians to this city and country.”

The directors of the Canadian Museum of History Corp. and the Canadian Museum of Nature have been informed that the minister of Canadian heritage fully supports their reappointment to new five-year terms, effective next June.

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is displaying 186 Christmas cards created by members of the Group of Seven and their contemporaries as well as artists of a more modern cast such as Jack Bush, William Ronald and Harold Town.

Conservation efforts and a heritage designation have renewed a southwestern Ontario waterway that was once called an “open sewer” for its pollution.