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When Canada's national museum on the Ottawa River opened
Located on the Ottawa River in the capital region, the building that houses what is now known as the Canadian Museum of History began welcoming visitors on June 29, 1989.

A not very neighbourly arrangement at the U.S. border
Free trade was around the corner, but cross-border commerce didn't seem very frictionless to some Canadian businesses in the middle of 1988.

The many times the royals have jetted across the pond for Canada Day
July 1 is a day the Royal Family has often kept free for making a visit to Canada.
Hundreds of Mi'kmaw artifacts return home to Cape Breton

Erin Pottie
News -Canada -Nova Scotia |
Museum looking for items to tell 'Windsor's Prohibition History'
News -Canada -Windsor ||

When 'a flood of free newspapers' washed over Toronto

How TV's The Raccoons went from a one-time special to a long-running cartoon

The sunken destroyer that didn't sink as it was supposed to

When Alan Maitland retired from CBC's As It Happens

The Canada geese that rode a truck from the 416 to the 506

Lettuce show you how we really feel: When fed-up farmers dumped produce in protest

When Canadian tourists were paying more to visit Britain

There wasn't enough Canada on Canadian TV in 1988

London researcher studying city's hosiery history
News -Canada -London |

When world leaders met in recessionary Venice

Scottish researcher scouring Maritimes for 'Holy Grail' of lost tartans

Erin Pottie
News -Canada -Nova Scotia ||

The hockey league that was literally ready to roll in 1993

The performers at Canada's 'first pop festival' in 1969

The cat who looked like 'a big elephant' compared to other felines

Car phones helped get the job done in 1990

Not a good time for newspapers: The 1992 edition

Watergate 50 years later: Last guy to turn out the lights before burglars arrived recalls infamous break-in

Mark Gollom
News -World ||

Black Ark, a 12-ft structure modelled after slave ships, asks us to see Canadian history differently

Chris Dart
Arts |

When goat cheese 'got to be quite a fad' in Canada
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