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René Lévesque entered provincial politics in 1960 when Jean Lesage persuaded him to join his Liberal dream team. In 1968 he founded the Parti Québécois (PQ).

This volume combines three of Richard Rohmer's best-selling novels in one book.

A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlain’s passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized.

Poetry or potsherds?

Over the years, Canadians have smugly asserted their country's more tolerant culture in race relations.

Susanna Moodie was already a published author when she emigrated from England to Upper Canada with her husband and baby in 1832.

One of the finest war memoirs ever written. During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

"The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s.

Like the shifting and often turbulent skies of our own emotional meteorology, Rhonda Batchelor's poems forecast the shifting patterns of a marriage from quiet moments of a graceful dawn to sto

Peter Jailall continues his search for the place called home in his third volume of poetry, exploring the "open, dangerous" landscape of a post-September 11th world.

Wilfrid Laurier’s life journey took him from a small Quebec village to the Parliament of Canada.

Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canada’s tenth and longest serving prime minister and an important figure on the international scene, especially during the Second World War.

How does spirituality relate to our everyday working lives? Can the challenges of work stress, burnout, time famine, and conflict be addressed by our beliefs and spiritual practices?

Objects can carry romantic myths, embody dangerous curses, or provide links to our past.

Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented.