There‘s a little-known chapter in Canadian history of a conflict in 1830s Ottawa between newly-immigrated Irish and Acadian Lumbermen ….

All in all, the diary offers a very real, unfiltered glimpse into hard lives lived, the few words acting like simple sketches of life ….

It began with a strange, somewhat disturbing find as a tunnel was being dug through the city’s downtown core.

In Dow's great swamp, one of the most dismal places in the wilderness, did [they], hold their merry Christmas of 1826.

My research had taken me to several established authors of canal history. Robert Leggett, whose book Rideau Waterway offered a comprehensive