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Steamboats carrying passengers from Hamilton to Montreal via the rapids of the St. Lawrence were a popular sight in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

These published rolls are intended to provide a fairly comprehensive list of the loyal colonials who joined the Provincial Corps of the British Army, 1775-1784, that were part of the Northern, or C

Romancing the Bard offers a look at the Stratford Festival in its first fifty years as it developed from a bold venture driven by vision of a handful of eager enthusiasts to its present status as a

In his eightieth year, Lord Rowallan has finally completed this autobiography. This is a book both moving and modest.

If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about the royal family - think again!

These observations and quotations comprise a witty anthology of anecdotes by and about the royal family in Canada over the last 400 years.

A beautiful and nostalgic look at the royal tour that captured a generation — the first visit of a reigning monarch to Canada.

The conveyance of royalty, whether to Balmoral or Buffalo, by Rolls Royce or Canadian Pacific train, has its own mysterious traditions and protocols.

Poet, travel writer, teacher, quiz-show presenter, broadcaster, adventurer - Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, met many people, and been many places.

Why write in the first place, other than your grocery list? Eric Nicol believes it's the second-most satisfying thing you can do lying down. But it's not enough to want to write.

The image of the scrum – a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters – is central to our perception of Ottawa.

Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took hi

One of only fifty infantry battalions to see action with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, the 58th nevertheless had no official history.

Arthur James Marshall Smith — prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic — died in 1980.

The Self-Completing Tree is the author's own collection of the best of her last 50 years of writing.