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Leaside is a most comprehensive look at the people, significant events and built heritage, all of which contributed to the creation of this distinctive community.

By taking on more than 120 judiciously chosen questions about wine and answering them clearly and rigorously, Marc Chapleau has dared to go into areas where others have feared to tread.

I was only six when I suspected my skin might be the wrong colour… Born female on the wrong side of the tracks, Eve Mills Nash, with the help of co-author Kenneth J.

Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during W

Louis Riel devoted his life to the Metis cause. A fiery activist, he struggled against injustice as he saw it.

Canadian surgeon Lucille Teasdale and her husband founded Lacor Hospital in northern Uganda in 1961.

Robert Boyer was a consummate Canadian, whose long career can be measured by words.

Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964.

Mary Janeway, born in Scotland in 1887, came to Canada as a "home child" at a very young age.

During his 18-year reign as premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis dominated the province and shaped it to his image.

In 1927, Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto when she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine Atlantic Monthly for her novel Jalna.

Author Gord Deval is the grand "old guy" of sport fishing in Canada. Few anglers can match him when it comes to his familiarity with trout and fly fishing.

Margaret Macpherson holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has worked as a teacher and journalist in Halifax, Bermuda, and Vancouver.

Born in Montreal, Oliver Jones performed his first piano concert at five years old.

A travel narrative written over the course of ten years, One Russia, Two Chinas is about change and resistance to change in the postmodern world.