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The starter gun sounds. Half a dozen huge boats that had been sitting motionless on the water explode into action. Two dozen paddles per boat slice the water in unison. Slowly at first, then faster and faster the boats pick up speed. The fierce-eyed dragon heads tipping the prow of each boat seem almost alive as the boats drive forward to the throb of drums and chants of the paddlers. Shouts from thousands of people [...]

It’s a cool summer morning and you are gliding across the still water. Just above you is a layer of mist that is slowly vanishing. You take a deep breath and smile: For the next few hours it’s just you and your canoe. Not everyone shares this passion, but recreational canoeing remains a popular Canadian activity. In fact, it’s estimated there are more than two million “active” paddlers in Canada. That estimate, [...]

Stare long enough at any map of Canada and strange things start to emerge. And I’m not talking about odd-shaped lakes or peninsulas. I’m referring to place names. For tucked among the dull and ordinary are hundreds of names for populated [...]

From top: Comedy greats Johnny Wayne (left) and Frank Shuster at work in the 1959 Burning of Rome sketch; actors [...]

Indonesian-born Kreato Adi Wijaya, 9, and his sister Majoli, 7, are among those taking the oath at a Toronto ceremony. On a cold, dull April afternoon in Toronto, [...]

Ojibway artist Mary Ann Caibaiosai’s depiction of the Windigo. Stories of the beast were often used to keep children [...]

From top: Beautiful apples sparkle under the sun in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley; Apple grower G.T. Turnbull examines [...]

A prospector unloads supplies from a bush plane at Taltheillie Narrows, N.W.T. In 1919, most of Canada’s 3,700,000 square miles were still uncharted wilderness. [...]

Spectators gather at the foot of Toronto’s Bay St. to view a variety of iceboats in 1907. “There were the iceboats, which were a very [...]

Thomas Russell poses behind the wheel during a display of Russell cars in the early 1900s.

On a brisk February day in 1907, four brave [...]