Walking into the orchestra level of the Royal Alexandra Theatre in its current state would be a shock for anyone who’s been a theatregoer in Toronto at some point in the past 100 years or so.

The restoration of a downtown Saskatoon office building has yielded some pleasant surprises for its owner and the lead architect.

Armstrong’s Point is poised to become Winnipeg's first heritage conservation district. Tyndal “gates” (they’re actually pillars) flank each of the three streets leading into the enclave, which is contained in a bend of the Assiniboine River.

The entrance to the enclave of Baby Point, nestled in Toronto’s west end near Jane Street north of Bloor Street, is guarded by stone gates. A little way inside, you find a cluster of 90-year-old Tudor-style homes ringed around some tennis courts and a log-cabin-style clubhouse.

If things had gone Richard Rohmer’s way in the 1960s, the Canada of 2016 could have been home to as many as 70 million people. Canada would have had a GDP rivalling that of the United Kingdom and new highways, new railways and new metropolises, all built in the sparsely populated boreal forest region that Rohmer came to call “Mid-Canada.”

Ottawa is throwing its weight behind an effort to repatriate the remains of two Indigenous people taken from a Newfoundland gravesite in 1828 that are now at a museum in Scotland.

A Newfoundland ecological reserve that holds ancient evidence of some of Earth's oldest creatures is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was known to raise a glass or two, now and then. A whisky-tasting event at Kingston, Ont.’s Bellevue House National Historic Site, where Macdonald and his family lived in 1848-49, is “the next best thing” to grabbing a drink with Canada's first prime minister himself, Parks Canada says.

Opened in 1904, Lock 21 on the Trent-Severn Waterway is the world’s highest hydraulic lift lock. Starting this fall the National Historic Site in Peterborough, Ont., is set to become an unusual setting for a fine-dining experience.

The launch of a new book on black history was held at Ontario’s Buxton National Historic Site and Museum.