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In 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days.

They come from the cities and farms, military bases and tourist towns, seaside bungalows and urban apartments. All are ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

"You’ll like Louis Mayer," Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943.

Peter C. Newman called him "the Totem of the Titans." From a small Prairie town, Daryl K. "Doc" Seaman became an icon of Canadian business and hockey.

Once again we are blessed with yet another collection of Jim Foster’s ravings.

This is a chilling collection of 50 accounts of truly unusual events and experiences that are told by the people who experienced them. Are there ghosts here? Yes.

Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians’ perception of themselves as a country and as a society.

At the turn of the century Sudbury was a town set on the railway line, with a population of about 2,000. The community was smaller than Sault Ste.

Syllables of Recorded Time is a lively look at the development over the last six decades of a national authors’ association, with all its problems and foibles.

There is a complex web of infrastructure behind the day-to-day operation of a Canadian city.

For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers.

It is a cruel irony of history that as we celebrate the centenary of flight on December 17, 2003, aviation is in a tailspin and airlines are disappearing in Canada.

Over the past two decades, the question of who owns the land of Temagami and how the land should be used has caused a debate of unparalleled intensity.For the native people, it is their lands under

The discovery of a suspected homegrown Islamic terrorist cell in our own backyard last year shocked most Canadians. The question arose: Is this country next on Al Qaeda's hit list?

Terrors of the Night is a collection of more than 100 accounts of eerie events and weird experiences that have been recorded by Canadians over the last 400 years.