National Network for Equitable Library Service

Maps for Family and Local History shows how three great land surveys can provide information on ancestral homes, as well as fascinating historical snapshots of specific areas.

Few people can resist the appeal of old maps and plans.

Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment.

The Midnight Hour is amazing, amusing, and frightening. It will make you pause to wonder - about ghosts and spirits, fate and destiny, strange beasts and even stranger human beings.

Of special interest to coin and bill collectors, as well as history buffs and students, is this clear, concise and intriguing explanation of the various coins and currencies used in Canada between

More Battlefields of Canada is a sequel to Mary Beacock Fryers bestselling Battlefields of Canada.

Mike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features.

Established in 1876, Mount Pleasant Cemetery has a rich and textured history.

Elizabeth Simcoe's diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made.

This book unmasks one of the greatest human interest stories in Canadian history: the emigration of tens of thousands of children from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become hom

In the early 1800s, Timothy Robers, a Quaker millwright from Vermont, drew a flourishing community of fellow Quakers to the area which became the new-market for settles and traders.

Northern Algoma is a vast wilderness north of Lake Superior and a land rich in natural resources — fur, gold, iron ore, endless tracts of forests.

This is the story of a young man’s journey through World War II.

Radio made its debut in the early twentieth century, and the world was never the same. The mysterious magic box brought people together as no other communication medium had ever done.

As Bob and Mildred Lee, they amazed audiences with their death-defying motorcycle act.