Our newsstand readers were treated to the bold cover on the right. Subscribers enjoyed The Diver, a 1976 watercolour-on-paper painting by the late artist Ken Danby, from a private collection in Westmount, Que., with assistance from the Alan...
The document at the heart of Hudson’s Bay Company comes home to Manitoba In April 2025, the 355-yearold Hudson’s Bay Company was sinking into bankruptcy, its properties liquidated, its subsidiaries sold off and its remaining assets...
In the mid-20th century, parts of Canada embraced drag balls. Then, things changed In the 1950s and ’60s, while many Torontonians were getting ready for trick-or-treaters, a sizable clutch of people opted for another cherished Halloween...
Canada’s public libraries have long been places of refuge, debate and discovery In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., back in February, when many businesses closed their doors, Paula Coutts, the head librarian of...
In 1976, Montreal was the host of the worst case of artistic censorship in the country’s history For about a week during the summer of 1976, Montreal’s Sherbrooke Street was a groundbreaking experiment in public art and public history....
The stories behind the structures that life has left behind A bandonment is a frank illustration of how things change over time. Vacant one-room schoolhouses mark the shift from numerous widely scattered rural classrooms to centralized...
