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This album is a collection of sentimental journeys into Edmonton's past - a time when a dime was all that was needed to see a movie, and couples skated across the glassy surface of a frozen la

Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution.

The diaries, letters, and sketches of Elizabeth Simcoe are drawn upon as sources in this portrayal of the energetic and remarkable woman who came to Upper Canada with her husband when he was appoin

In geology an erratic is a "boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier." In award-winning novelist Mark Frutkin’s case, his movement fro

Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald – where violence was meaningless bec

Regimental histories are a virtual window to a nation. They provide insight into a country’s culture, values, and martial spirit.

From Pioneer Public Health Nurse to Advocate for the Aged: Eunice Henrietta Dyke.

On February 20, 1959, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker announced to the House of Commons the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow. Its development costs to that time were $340 million.

In The Firebrand, William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie.

Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first female senator, was one of nine children raised in an atmosphere of rugged Scots liberalism and strict presbyterianism by affluent Montreal parents in the late ninete

Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nation’s history.

Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation.

The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history.

From the 1890s through the 1920s, as horse gave way to machine, the look of Toronto and the lifestyles of its inhabitants were irrevocably altered.