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Much has been written by others about the relationship Irving Layton and Harriet Bernstein shared, and most of it is inaccurate.

How relevant is classical music today? The genre seems in danger of becoming nothing more than a hobby for the social elite.

Both charming and powerful, this memoir unfolds the story of a young girl born in Iran who eventually triumphs over sexism and abuse to become a successful woman and mother in Canada.

Gerald Le Dain (1924-2007) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984.

This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin "word bundles" that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics.

Women have reached the highest levels of political office in Canada's provinces and territories, but what difference has their rise to the top made? In Doing Politics Differently?

When Allison Watson awoke that day, she knew she was in a hospital bed. That's all. She had no idea how much time had passed since she had seen her family.

Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier's small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library.

Wendy Murphy was rendered with incomplete paraplegia following a motor vehicle accident in 1984.

Eldon Davis Rathburn (1916-2008), one of the most multi-dimensional, prolific, and endlessly fascinating composers of the twentieth century, wrote more music than any other Canadian composer of his

A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B.

Caught Between Two Devils is based on the real-life experiences of Antanas Paskevicius, his wife Jadwyga, and his sister Maria.

Captains of whaling vessels were experienced navigators of northern waters, and William Penny was in the vanguard of the whaling fraternity.

The name Sri Lanka conjures two images.

More than fifty years after most Canadian women received the right to vote, very few women were elected as members of Parliament and none came from Quebec.