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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.

Short-listed for the 2002 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research In the seventy years since 1931, various organizations large and small, including several semi-private ones, ha

Sherlock Holmes Handbook sums up a Canadian scholar's lifetime expertise about Sherlock Holmes -- the characters and themes, the publishers and readers, Victorian London and the Houdini connec

In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier’s arrival, Prince Edward Island’s history has been tied to the sea and to ships.

The stories of many POW escapees are well known, but what about those who miraculously evaded capture in the first place and returned to fight another day?