Ancient frescoes like the Greek monkeys suggest Europe and south Asia had trade links as long as 3,600 years ago.

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Voyageurs National Park, one of the nation’s most unique parks that is accessible largely only by water, preserves 220,000 ...

It was founded as a fur trading post in 1776, a year after Cumberland House. Next year the community will celebrate its 250th anniversary. European trade routes came through Northern Saskatchewan ...

The Alberta section of the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) spans more than 300 kilometres from the Crowsnest Pass, one of the less travelled areas of the Rockies, to Medicine Hat. The route is filled ...

The winter winds howled across the Upper Great Lakes, the kind that cut to the bone and warned of hard times ahead. But inside her trading post, Madeline Laframboise stood firm. A Métis businesswoman, ...

The Selkirk Settlers were among the first organized European agricultural settlers to arrive in what is now Manitoba. In the early 19th century, they established a farming community in the Red River ...

The Transylvanian Alps provide visitors with abundant wildlife, UNESCO World Heritage sites, and quaint villages—without the ...

Some cruelty hides in the open. Tourists snap photos. Shoppers swipe credit cards. People scroll past without thinking twice.