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The term symbolkirchen can roughly be translated as a “symbol bearing church.” Such churches point to living realities …

In 1963, a firefighter named Ted Szilva entered a contest organized by the Canadian Centennial Committee in Sudbury. The …

Afloat at dawn and inhaling the misty rays of rising late-summer sun. Other days, it might be a sunset paddle with a Thermos of …

I’m proud to be a Canadian. I’m also proud to be an Ontarian. Going one step further, I’m proud to be a Falcon.

In …

The photo became an heirloom in our family: a picture of Her Majesty the Queen at Kew Gardens in The Beach, escorted by Toronto …

My life as an archaeologist often consists of hour upon hour of painstaking analysis of small bits and pieces of everyday life. …

In the summer of 1982, I was carrying out archaeological research near the shores of Hudson Bay on the Severn River. One of the …

Northern Ontario has unique structures, not familiar to many, spread out through small northern communities, reflecting its …

There are many stories that we can share. Well, first of all, the word “Ontario” itself. Many people don’t know what it means. …

At 6 p.m. on December 2, 1986, Ontario’s legislative assembly was scheduled to vote on adding “sexual orientation” to the …

Suspicion, fear, and intimidation met Jesuit priests Jean de Brébeuf and Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot during their Mission of …

As Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, I’ve had the privilege to meet many proud, talented and hardworking Ontarians …

A month before Ontario turns 150 years old, I’ll celebrate my 57th birthday. I’ve lived all but one of those years in the …

I’ve always had a passion about archaeology and also about water. I love being on the water and under it. So, what better way …

My first visit to Ontario, from Québec, was at about age 8. I have a distinct memory of arriving by car down the Don Valley …

When I think of Ontario, I think of inclusion, diversity and the resulting richness it brings to our province. In a world that …

When we walk with the water, we pray for the water. The water that we carry, we pray for it, and we pray to it; we speak to it. …

Il est parti au chantier
Y avait à peine 15 ans
Y a moyen de s’en sortir
Pour ça, faut faire d’l’argent
Y …

Over the past decade, I have developed a passion for cemeteries. It started during my tenure as Director of the Ontario Jewish …

In the 1980s-90s, I excavated at Cummins and Sheguiandah National Historic Site quarry/ workshops in northern Ontario – in …

Ontario’s Legislative Building, completed in 1893, is a magnificent structure filled with stories from the most significant …

During the American Revolution, the Mohawks were forced to flee their homeland in upper New York State. In 1784, after spending …

My first views of Ontario were from a passenger train 45 years ago. In 1972, I crossed the border at Detroit and took a train …

The Chinguacousy (“land of the young pines”) Badlands have been visited by hundreds of thousands of Ontarians. This rapidly …

Each morning, I open the door of our farmhouse and step into an enduring landscape of beauty, shaped by horse and man. Sheep …

MY ONTARIO IS: RosalieAbella, RobertAitken, AndréAlexis, LouApplebaum, MargaretAtwood, IainBaxter&, StanBevington, …

In the year of the 150th birthday of Canada, I would like to pay tribute to my hometown. North Buxton started out in 1849 as a …

Whenever I have visitors to Toronto, I take them to the Harris Filtration Plant. This beautiful complex is one of the few …

Métis youth leader Katelyn LaCroix was recently asked what being Métis meant to her. She replied that “like the sash, we are …

Education is key. It will lead to healing as well as social awareness about the Indigenous culture. My ancestors spent hundreds …

I possess 16 photographs from c.1905 of my great-grandparents’ home in St. Catharines. At a personal level, I like these …

My Ontario is the Rideau Canal region between Smiths Falls and Kingston. Having spent many years as the planner for the Rideau …

Stories are powerful. They reveal our values, pleasures and memories, the rituals and rhythms of our lives, our spiritual …

Our voyage aboard the MV Algomarine began at the Port of Montreal late on a Saturday afternoon in July 2007 and ended early the …

I’m standing on the deck of a small boat, riding the swells of the Nipigon River where it widens into Lake Superior. In front …

Homer Watson’s paintings and drawings captured the spirit of pioneer Ontario much as, in a later generation, the work of the …

Toronto’s Chinatown East has a beautiful gateway – a Chinese architectural tradition first introduced in British Columbia in …

I first saw the Camp Ahmek waterfront on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park in 1951. I saw it again last summer – 65 years later – …

I feel the deepest connection with a place when I’m alone in it, surrounded by silence, the rest of the world far away. The …

Ontario is Canada’s largest and most diverse province – home to ingenuity, inclusiveness and optimism.

Our province’s …

In 1985, the Toronto school board and Ontario’s culture ministry created the Archaeological Resource Centre. There, …

Every evening when I was a kid in the 1940s, I’d manoeuvre rough logs up onto a sawhorse and use a small bucksaw to cut them …

Hockey is Canada’s national sport, and there is nothing more synonymous with hockey than the Stanley Cup. The tradition, the …

Peggy Pompadour haunts me. I walk through the streets of Ye Olde Towne Toronto and I feel her presence – this Black enslaved …

I am inspired by something intangible: the past, especially the history of Chinese Canadians. I grew up in Vancouver, knowing …

Being a lifelong naturalist whose goal has been to explore Ontario’s natural history, I’ve come to appreciate just how rich …

As a historian of Mennonites in Ontario, I have always enjoyed wandering through Mennonite and Amish cemeteries. Whether plain …