Important places in our past are all around you. No matter where you live or travel in Canada, there are museums, historic sites and all kinds of other special places to explore. In each issue of Kayak, we tell you about some that relate to our theme — check them out below! And if you have a favourite historic place, tell us about it.

Canada’s Comic Book Heroes

Canucks On Guard

A great collection for kids is True Patriot, an all-Canadian collection of superheroes such as the Red Ensign, Raven Girl, Dominion Jack and more. The first edition pretty much sold out, so the creators are working on a second book.

Watch for reprints of the adventures of Nelvana of the Northern Lights coming soon. Two Canadians (who are also involved in a documentary about Canadian comic book superheroes and their creators called Lost Heroes: The Movie) have permission to reprint the 31 Nelvana stories, which first appeared in the 1940s.

You can also put Superman on a letter . . . sort of. Canada Post is putting out stamps to mark the Man of Steel’s 75th anniversary. (He first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938.)

And the Royal Canadian Mint has a very cool series of seven different Superman coins. They’re for collectors, though — you won’t see any of them in the change you get at the store.