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An excavation of the Parliament of the Province of Canada reveals glimpses of political life in Victorian-era Montreal.

Technocracy promised Depression-weary Canadians an end to their hardship. But the offer came with a catch.

In the 1940s contralto Portia May White was celebrated as Canada’s singing sensation.

For generations, society has historically expected women to not only do the laundry — but to do it well..

Like children in other late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Canadian communities, boys in colliery towns and villages worked.

On the eve of the Second World War, England worried for its wealth. War was costly. But the gold to pay the price of victory lay vulnerable in London. The solution — ship England’s treasure overseas, to Canada. And so began Operation Fish.

When an impulsive young adventurer asked a crusty seaman if they could sail around the world in a small craft, he told him he could go one better — they could cross three oceans in a canoe. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing.

DNA testing seems like the key to unlocking your family's ethnic history. But is it really?

This 200-year-old historic site was lost until its public rediscovery in 1990. Archaeologists and historians have been unable to provide a conclusive explanation of the site’s origins.

More than a century after the Klondike gold rush, a new treasure is revealed — the diary of a prospector.