My earliest memory of it was in Grade 7. A darkness came over me that I could never quite shake. I come from a single-parent ...

I grew up in Val-Morin, Quebec, a small, woodsy village in the Laurentians. My parents, both teachers, would take my brother ...

For that, Maclean’s surveyed our pool of writers about the neighbourhoods they love most. The result is both a portrait of a ...

In 1919, the Canadian National Railway sliced through Montreal, transforming a tract of agricultural land and limestone quarries into the industrial hub now known as Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie. These ...

The Hydrostone, and the Bloomfield area immediately south of it, grew by a combined 40 per cent. Bloomfield especially has ...

I spent a decade or so in my twenties living in Wîhkwêntôwin, a neighbourhood just west of Edmonton’s downtown. Much of that ...

From across the water, you can see clearly the St. Boniface Cathedral—the burial place and home of a statue honouring Métis leader Louis Riel, known as the Father of Manitoba. Currently, the Forks is ...

Cary and Kathryn Watson moved from Toronto to Crown Point Hub in 2008, looking for more room and financial freedom. They sold ...

Davenport, just northwest of the city’s downtown, is in the most interesting and complicated phase of neighbourhood evolution ...

My favourite way to reach Lower Lonsdale from Vancouver is the SeaBus: a 12-minute passenger ferry that chugs across Burrard ...