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The first permanent cultural space of its kind in Canada will feature more than 150 stories of early Chinese immigrants whose resilience against racism helped shape Chinatown.

Until a Canadian Steamship Line vessel ran aground just south of Montreal and ruptured its fuel tank Monday night, there had never been an oil spill in the St. Lawrence's Seaway 51-year history.

NDP leader Jack Layton hammered Prime Minister Stephen Harper over the harmonized sales tax on Sunday, arguing during a campaign stop in Surrey that it was a bad move during a recession.

The local band council in Kahnawake made good on its word and banned the transport of nuclear-waste materials through the St. Lawrence Seaway section that runs through the Mohawk community.

WASHINGTON - An American federal agency is suggesting Canadian ports taking in U.S.-bound cargo, in particular Prince Rupert, B.C., lack the tight security measures in place in the United States for cargo shipped directly to its ports.

The museum is in 'very close talks' to acquire the more than century-old SS Keewatin, an Edwardian passenger steamship, and make it a 'major attraction for Kingston.'

Most people recognize Charles Shaughnessy as Maxwell Sheffield from the long-running TV sitcom The Nanny -- but he's officially the Right Hon. Lord Shaughnessy.

Capt. Richard Phillips says he has gone back business as usual since being taken hostage in a 2009 pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. The movie about his story and rescue opened Friday.

The bodies of Aaron Cogswell, Leonard Gabriel, Dan Forbes, Geno Francis and captain Charles Roberts were never found after the sinking of the Chief William Saulis on Dec. 15, 2020.

The last of Canada's steam-powered warships - HMCS Preserver - has a well-earned reputation for staying the course and getting the job done.

Scientists used lasers from the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon to illuminate the last few months of the doomed 19th-century British voyage to the Northwest Passage.

A travelling exhibit opening at Halifax's Maritime Museum of the Atlantic takes a look at gay subculture among seafarers.

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - As he manoeuvred his passenger-packed, double-decker boat toward the wall of falling water rising 170 feet (52 metres) before him, Senior Capt. Malcolm Bunting's words on shore a few minutes earlier became crystal clear, especially as the enveloping spray made the view from the wheelhouse anything but.

It is a gleaming monument intended to shed light on one of the darkest chapters of Canadian history. The Wheel of Conscience, designed by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, will be unveiled Thursday at Pier 21, Canada's immigration museum in Halifax.

Until a Canada Steamship Lines vessel heading into the Port of Montreal ran aground near Ste. Catherine and ruptured its fuel tank Monday night, there had never been an oil spill in the St. Lawrence Seaway's 51-year history.

The rally is organized by the West Coast Coalition Against Racism (WCCAR) as a response to the vandalism of the memorial.

Some of the deadliest and most famous peacetime passenger vessel disasters of the past century:

Some of the deadliest and most famous peacetime passenger vessel disasters of the past century.

A century ago, more than 350 people were denied entry to Canada and sent back across the Pacific ocean because they weren't the right colour or religion.

Riverside Marine plans to run two passenger ferries between Victoria's Steamship Terminal and the Vancouver Convention Centre.