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Bred in 1916 by Isabella Preston, Canada’s first female horticulturist, the Creelman lily sits among other lost and found ...
Mia Noblet balances on a highline beside the Trestle Bridge, B.C. (Photo: Quirin Herterich) Excerpted from Flow: Women’s ...
The song of a male red-winged blackbird takes on a visible form as it stakes out its territory on a cold spring morning. (Photo: Stanley Bysshe) Our planet has a soundtrack. There are the birds, of ...
The history behind the Dundas name change and how Canadians are reckoning with place name changes across the country — from streets to provinces In some ways, there aren’t many streets like Toronto’s ...
The 2023 summer of smoke, during the world’s hottest year on record before 2024, saw more than 200 communities evacuated across Canada, 19 in the Northwest Territories.In one study on evacuations here ...
As Canada embarks on a process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the Métis are still without territory to call their own Historian Arthur J. Ray wrote* that many of Canada’s Indigenous people ...
Footsteps crunch quietly on twigs, as Laurie Rousseau-Nepton makes her careful way through the forests surrounding Ashuapmushuan, Que. She pauses, she listens, she looks. It was her father who taught ...
What is a river? That is a question to which filmmaker, author and Métis Elder Marjorie Beaucage has given a lot of thought. Now 77, Beaucage grew up in southeastern Manitoba, raised by the land, but ...
Most international borders adhere to some sort of logic. They follow coastlines or rivers, watersheds or natural barriers. They make sense. Not so the 49th parallel. The border from the Lake of the ...
The Group of Seven formed amid the surge in Canadian nationalism following the First World War. “The National Gallery and the Group of Seven shared common goals — to further an awareness of art and of ...
In his new book In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how they came to coexist —and sometimes clash — in the 19th ...
The short timeline of the slope’s demise is breathtaking. The first report of the slope’s instability reached Parks Canada in 2016. A geotechnical assessment followed, and the hut was closed so Parks ...