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In 1924 Phyllis (Phyl) Munday did what no other woman had done before - reached the summit of Mt. Robson. She climbed close to 100 mountains in her lifetime, many of those first ascents.

The psalms are among the most sublime poetry in the world, offering us inexhaustible wells of meaning.

In Purity of Absence, Dave Margoshes explores love in its waxing and waning, the extravagance of its fullness, the agony of its departure.

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.