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For more than a century, Toronto’s Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond.

Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considere

The Admirals: Canada's Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century fills an important void in the history of Canada's navy.

This is the story of Irish-born Henry Ross Halpin, who by the age of 16 began a long association with the fur trade and Canada’s native peoples, was thrice employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company, and

Maximizing one’s savings is the surest way to guarantee that there is life after taxes.

This comprehensive book on William Lyon Mackenzie's later life focuses first on the period 1838-1849, Mackenzie's years in exile in the United States.

Verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide. How has that happened?

From the engagement to the honeymoon, the act of getting married is surrounded with tradition and superstition.

Born on the Isle of Mull to an impoverished lair of the clan Maclean, young Allan fought his first battle — for Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden — from a sense of deep conviction and family loyalt

It was the decisive battle of World War I.

Whether it is birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Thanksgiving dinners or New Year’s celebrations, we humans demonstrate a peculiar compulsion to celebrate the continuing cycle of the recurrent calen

Marilyn Noell looks back over the past forty-three years of her life as a quadriplegic.

Canadian soldiers have served their country for centuries, and for the most part they have done so honourably and loyally.

The Shackleton of his day, Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) from County Louth was the leading Arctic explorer of the Victorian era.

This pathbreaking book offers some nononsense truths about northern development.