Heritage Matters  contributor

• Natural heritage

The Arctic Watershed follows an erratic course of some 2,240 kilometres (1,400 miles) across northern Ontario. It marks the …

• Buildings and architecture
  Arts and creativity
  Adaptive reuse

In December 1913, Loew’s Yonge Street Theatre – the Canadian flagship of the mighty Loew’s empire – opened in Toronto. Two …

• Black heritage
  Buildings and architecture
  Natural heritage

Ontario’s heritage is an immense and complex jigsaw puzzle. Every individual element of heritage creates a whole . . . a sort …

• Cultural objects

Genealogical research can be challenging, frustrating and ultimately rewarding as you wade through hundreds of records and …

• Women's heritage
  Arts and creativity
  Natural heritage

Catharine Parr Traill is one of Canada’s literary luminaries. Her life story spans most of the 19th century, crossing oceans, …

• Buildings and architecture
  Community
  Tools for conservation

There are countless examples across the province of successful restorations of Ontario’s treasured heritage sites. Although the …

• Buildings and architecture

A flash of phosphorus. A whiff of smoke. And an image is captured. Photographs have chronicled our lives for over 150 years, …