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Fight over secret Tommy Douglas file goes to top court
The Supreme Court of Canada is being asked to settle a seven-year battle to lift the shroud of secrecy over a decades-old intelligence dossier on socialist trailblazer Tommy Douglas.Servicemen, civilians remembered on Pearl Harbor's 71st anniversary
More than 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor and many more around the country are marking the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II.
More than 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor and many more around the country are marking the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II. Hunters used stone-tipped spears 200,000 years earlier than previously thought
A Canadian-led team of anthropologists find evidence that hunters used stone-tipped weapons 500,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. The fearless, near-forgotten story of HMS Jervis Bay
The attack came more than a thousand kilometres away in the mid-North Atlantic. But the enemy action — one of the earliest in the six-year Battle of the Atlantic — brutally brought the Second World War home to Newfoundland. Morning Glory: Canada's own WWI war horse
War Horse is the stage and screen story of a horse from Wales that goes to France during the First World War. There is an equally moving but little known true story about a Canadian horse and her rider. Korean War battle of Kapyong among Canada's greatest victoriesHistory | 208145 hits | 11:31 PM on Thursday | posted by saturn_656
Ancient statue discovered by Nazis is made from meteorite
An ancient statue, recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s, was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite, say researchers.
An ancient statue, recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s, was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite, say researchers. Unsung hero of Queenston Heights finally gets his due
Uniform, sword of Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe to be returned to Ontario for permanent displayMajor breakthrough in search for King Richard III
A team from the University of Leicester has passed the first major hurdle in the search for King Richard III’s remains after discovering his burial ground in England this week.
A team from the University of Leicester has passed the first major hurdle in the search for King Richard III’s remains after discovering his burial ground in England this week. Search for lost Franklin ships launched in Canada's Arctic
EXCLUSIVE: CBC News is on board as Parks Canada launches the biggest expedition yet to find the missing ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 effort to discover the Northwest Passage.Could video show footage of Amelia Earhart's plane?
High-resolution video taken in July is encouraging, exploration group says
High-resolution video taken in July is encouraging, exploration group says Radar mission little known success story of WWII Dieppe raid
When Canadian soldiers descended on Dieppe 70 years ago, they found themselves overwhelmed by a German army that was able to mobilize en masse to repel their attack. As soldiers began dying, a small group of Prairie soldiers embarked on a stealthy mission Loretta Mary Martin, the last link to First World War's famed Newfoundland Regiment, dies at 91
St. John’s woman married a veteran of the volunteer force that earned great distinction during the conflict Canadians share family connections to Dieppe raid
As the 70th anniversary of the Dieppe raid approaches, The Globe and Mail invited readers to share their connections to this defining moment in Canadian history.Scott's wrecked ship Terra Nova discovered in Arctic
The wreck of the ship that carried Captain Robert Scott on his doomed expedition to the Antarctic a century ago has been discovered off Greenland.
The wreck of the ship that carried Captain Robert Scott on his doomed expedition to the Antarctic a century ago has been discovered off Greenland. Early trading post found under Edmonton power plant 
Construction crews in Edmonton have found evidence of the city’s first settlement, believed to date back to 1802.Scientists find new human species
Fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago, researchers say.
Fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago, researchers say. WW II vehicle convoy marks Alaska Highway anniversary
Nearly 200 people will mark the 70th anniversary of the Alaska Highway this week with a drive up the highway in a convoy of World War II vintage military vehicles. Archives cataloguing state of Canadiana
Library and Archives Canada has compiled the first-ever master list of how well its massive collection is holding up as it prepares for a major move next year of thousands of pieces of Canadian history.Shackleton and Scott's Antarctic huts are put online by Google
Navigable photographs of polar explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic huts are put online by Google.
Navigable photographs of polar explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic huts are put online by Google. Vintage planes fly into Halifax
This weekend vintage vessels aren't only docked in the Halifax Harbour for the Tall Ships Festival, a fleet of historic vintage planes have touched down at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Oregon stone tools enliven 'earliest Americans' debate
Scientists studying how North America was first settled find stone spearheads and darts in Oregon, US, that date back more than 13,000 years. Fossilized 'nursery' of early animals found in Newfoundland
Canadian and British scientists working at Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland have discovered what they believe to be the first large grouping of baby rangeomorphs, 600-million-year-old, fern-shaped organisms thought to be the world's earli Descendants of fugitive slave reunite in Hamilton
Over 200 descendants of a fugitive slave will be reuniting in Hamilton this weekend, as a return to the city where their family first gained freedom. Clovis people not 1st to arrive in North America
Spearheads and DNA found at the Paisley Caves in Oregon suggest that a separate group of people using different hunting tools arrived in North America several hundred years prior to the Clovis culture.Timbuktu UNESCO shrines destroyed by Islamist rebels
Islamist fighters with ties to al-Qaeda have destroyed tombs classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu, a resident and UN officials said Saturday.
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Islamist fighters with ties to al-Qaeda have destroyed tombs classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu, a resident and UN officials said Saturday. War of 1812: Violence, glory and a new Canadian-nessHistory | 208879 hits | 10:12 PM on Tuesday | posted by maldonsfecht
Grant Stoddard writes that Canadian national identity was born amid the bloody heroics of the War of 1812 against the US. Historian Alan Taylor's new take on the 'civil war' of 1812
The U.S. declared war against Great Britain on June 18, 1812. U.S. historian Alan Taylor tells CBC News about the lead-up to what he calls the civil war of 1812. Medal awarded for bravery in 1899 returns home
A gold medal awarded by the U.S. president to a former B.C. man who helped rescue crew from a burning ship off Vancouver Island's west coast in 1899 has been repatriated to Canada. Glace Bay tribute to WW I hero restored after accident
A tribute to a fallen World War One solider in Glace Bay, N.S. has been restored to its original condition after being smashed into pieces in December.Vulva images in France are among oldest cave art
Rock engravings and traces of painting discovered in southwest France are believed to be from at least 37,000 years ago, making them among the world's oldest cave art.
Rock engravings and traces of painting discovered in southwest France are believed to be from at least 37,000 years ago, making them among the world's oldest cave art.Ancient Maya workshop for astronomers discovered
Archeologists have discovered Maya astronomical tables that are hundreds of years older than any previously discovered - and which pour more cold water on the myth that the society predicted the world would end in 2012.
Archeologists have discovered Maya astronomical tables that are hundreds of years older than any previously discovered - and which pour more cold water on the myth that the society predicted the world would end in 2012.
News agency apologizes for firing war reporter over WWII scoop
Edward Kennedy was fired after reporting a full day early that the Germans had surrendered
Historic site to begin transformation 130 years after demolition
The design for Upper Fort Garry Heritage Park and Interpretive Centre will tell its story through overlapping layers of contemporary sculptural and graphic imagery, expressed through sophisticated technologies that will create a unique urban gathering pla
In 1912, post offices lined up to be named 'Titanic'
A curious thing happened at the headquarters of Canada's postal system in 1912 following the sinking of the Titanic. Dozens of requests poured into Ottawa from postmasters across the country asking for permission to change the names of their post offices Titanic human remains likely in sea bed: U.S. scientist
Human remains may be embedded in the mud of the North Atlantic where the New York-bound Titanic came to rest when it sank 100 years ago, contends a federal U.S. scientist. Titanic memorial cruise arrives at wreck site
Passengers aboard the Titanic memorial cruise ship Azamara Journey are now at the site of the marine disaster that unfolded in the North Atlantic 100 years ago and will lay a wreath where the legendary vessel sank. Relatives seek closure at Titanic burial site in Halifax
Howard Kallender drove more than 1,000 kilometres from Philadelphia to Halifax with his wife and three children to visit a grave he had never seen -- the final resting place of his great uncle, who perished in the Titanic disaster. Former Liberal PM questions snub of charter
Next week's 30th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the 1982 patriation of the Canadian Constitution seems to have largely escaped the official attention of an otherwise history-conscious Conservative government. Titanic sinking foretold in fictional accounts years before disaster
The Titanic's plunge into the frigid Atlantic was predicted several years before the disaster — not by an oracle or in a conspiracy theory but in seemingly innocuous works of fiction about shipwrecks on the high seas.Human ancestors made fire 1 million years ago: researchers
When did our ancestors first use fire? That's been a long-running debate, and now a new study concludes the earliest firm evidence comes from about 1 million years ago in a South African cave.
When did our ancestors first use fire? That's been a long-running debate, and now a new study concludes the earliest firm evidence comes from about 1 million years ago in a South African cave. Did Ancient Drifters 'Discover' British Columbia?
As the tide creeps over the sand flats of Pachena Bay south of Bamfield, it brings ashore the flotsam of the Pacific that -- on occasion -- hints at extraordinary travels and a mystery of historic proportions. Rare native artifact returned to B.C.
A centuries-old native artifact believed to have been given to British explorer James Cook by Vancouver Island natives has been returned to B.C. thanks to the largesse and perseverance of a Vancouver art collector.Back to Canada News
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