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Did the Fathers of Confederation bungle the creation of Canada? Maybe they were smarter than you think.

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

Many of Hollywood’s most distinctive, Oscar-winning sound effects were the work of a little-known Canadian.

One of the first officers of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police, Francis Dickens, son of novelist Charles Dickens, was noted for his famous parentage, if not much else.

The old buildings of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have a checkered past. Is their shady heritage worth saving?

People loved their beer. Yet when zealous prohibitionists launched a holy crusade against the brewers, the brewers lost.

While thousands of eastern Europeans poured into Canada to settle the prairie west, a few hundred elected to return to their roots and build an agricultural utopia in the new Soviet Russia. Utopian, it wasn’t.

British Columbia’s First Nations are in a unique situation regarding Treaties.

Butcher, baker, restauranteur — Dr. William John McKay had your number. When it came to defending Saskatoon’s public health, no one was tougher.

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.