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The long history of the Clan MacDonald begins in 1779 as Calum Ruadh leaves Scotland to begin a new life on Cape Breton Island.

To celebrate their anniversary, Sam surprises his wife Vera by bringing her back to the spot of their rural honeymoon fifty years ago.

From the novel by Martha Blum.

Happy Place explores the lives of seven women aged 23 to 60 who are residents of an in-patient care facility: a microcosm for the world outside its walls.

It’s the 1830s. Two travelling minstrels are passing north from London, Ontario, with their song and dance show on the local circuit.

Ally and Josh spend every summer with their father as he goes from small town to small town, working for a construction company in America. But this summer is different.

It's 1977, and successful writer Peg Dunlop has returned to her small Ontario hometown to look after her ailing mother.

Twelve Hours is the story of Jimmy Stanton. Convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman, Jimmy is facing his last hours on Death Row.

In Relative Good, David Gow grapples with the complex implications of the War on Terror, and the resulting sweeping changes to law that allow authorities to violate basic civil rights.

How does a farm girl in 1950s Ontario escape the stall-cleaning, cow-milking, hal-baling drudgery of life on Rural Route 2? She becomes a movie star, of course!

The historical accounts from King Henry VIII and Queen Anne's time are steeped in controvery, contradiction, and irony.

Raw in its emotionalism and bold in its theatricality, Falling in Time is set in Vancouver in 1994 and tells the story of four individuals, across two continents and over a span of more than forty

Anabel gives her heart to a man she meets on the subway and he disappears with it. Her limbs begin to fall asleep. George is on the run but keeps getting distracted by romantic comedies.

Nic has autism.

Les Filles du Roi (The King's Daughters), a gorgeous new trilingual musical written in English, French, and Kanien'kéha (Mohawk), is the powerful story of Kateri, a young Kanien'keh