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 household, and I was ostracized at school; my depression led me to isolate ...

I grew up in Val-Morin, Quebec, a small, woodsy village in the Laurentians. My parents, both teachers, would take my brother and I on road trips and vacations whenever they could ...

For that, Maclean’s surveyed our pool of writers about the neighbourhoods they love most. The result is both a portrait of a country bursting with urban development and an indispensable bucket list ...

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 come to function as a vibrant, younger adjunct of the historic Hydrostone, ...

Cary and Kathryn Watson moved from Toronto to Crown Point Hub in 2008, looking for more room and financial freedom. They sold their semi-detached house for close to $320,000 (a fortune at the time) ...

I spent a decade or so in my twenties living in Wîhkwêntôwin, a neighbourhood just west of Edmonton’s downtown. Much of that time was spent in the Annamoe Mansion, a brick walk-up that’s over a ...

Davenport, just northwest of the city’s downtown, is in the most interesting and complicated phase of neighbourhood evolution: mid-stage gentrification. In the 1970s, the CP rail corridor that cut ...

My favourite way to reach Lower Lonsdale from Vancouver is the SeaBus: a 12-minute passenger ferry that chugs across Burrard Inlet and spits passengers out at the Lonsdale Quay. The views from the ...

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 ...