History in Ontario

Canada’s infamous maximum-security prison, now open for guided tours with former guards.

The first post office in Toronto still operates today, complete with quill pens and ink for writing letters.

The site of one of the most profitable silver mines in the world, reclaimed by Lake Superior.

One of the last remaining structures built by a community of African Canadians in the 19th century.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

Within the church are the relics of the martyrs St. Jean de Brébeuf, St. Gabriel Lalemant, and St. Charles Garnier.

This museum explores the history of stickers and is home to RePEELed, an exhibit featuring sticker art from around the world.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

Among the cliffs of the Elora Gorge is an oft-overlooked piece of celebratory graffiti.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.