- 2026-10-08Queen's University was the earliest degree-granting liberal arts college established in the united Province of Canada, holding its first classes…
- 2026-10-08Following the cession of the east bank of the Niagara River to the United States in 1783, the British authorities…
- 2026-10-08This generating station, built between 1917 and 1922, was considered the world’s first true hydroelectric megaproject. Its massive scale required…
- 2026-10-08An important community icon, this chapel bares witness to the early black settlement of the Niagara region and marks the…
- 2026-10-08Red Fife Wheat, an early maturing, high quality variety, was discovered in 1842 by David Fife in an experimental plot…
- 2026-10-08In 1956 and 1957, Canada received more than 37,500 refugees who fled Hungary after Soviet troops marched on Budapest to…
- 2026-10-08After escaping to Upper Canada from slavery in Kentucky, the Reverend Josiah Henson became a conductor of the Underground Railroad…
- 2026-10-08As an abolitionist who had owned slaves in the United States, Reverend William King made a unique contribution to the…
- 2026-10-08Born in Bundu, now in Senegal, Richard Pierpoint was captured, forcibly transported to the Thirteen Colonies, and sold into slavery…
- 2026-10-08Built between 1826 and 1832, the Rideau Canal is the best-preserved, fully operational example from North America’s great canal-building era.…