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Did a Canadian kill famed escape artist Harry Houdini? Are the streets of Yellowknife really paved with gold?

Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right.

Canada's gold rush of the late 1890s attracted dreamers and schemers from all over North America.

There have been guidebooks to military sites before, but no other book has covered the War of 1812 in its entirety.

Private schools have frequently provided innovative, experimental, and creative programunavailable to students in the public system.

Originally published in 1988, this revised and expanded edition of Donald C.

A hard-luck Yankee fortune seeker. A Hamilton wagon maker hoping to sell cars to the new railways. A howling swamp so isolated and foul that pioneer farmers had steered it a wide miss.

It was an irrational decision.

This book is about some of the most dramatic search-and-rescue operations in Canada.

Although it has been overshadowed by other events of the Second World War, Canada’s role in the Italian Campaign, from 1943 to 1945, was significant.

Henry John Cody was born in Embro, Ontario, on December 6, 1868.

Strategies for the conservation and revitalization of buildings and districts have preoccupied the international community for decades.

For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939.

Historical Distillates examines the history of the Chemistry Department at the University of Toronto from its beginnings in 1843, when it was housed in simple quarters in the Parliament Buildings o

In early 1812, as the British and the Americans were on the brink of war in North America, Fort St. Joseph was not thought to be of much importance to the British cause.