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

One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means.

Tragedy and farce, bravery and cowardice, intelligence and foolishness, sense and nonsense - all these contradictions and more have characterized the War of 1812.

Originally published in 1967, Combat Journal for Place d'Armes, set in Montreal, was initially met with shock and anger by most reviewers. As D.H.

Sergeant Gander is a fascinating account of the Royal Rifles of Canada’s canine mascot, and his devotion to duty demonstrated during the Battle of Hong Kong in the Second World War.

The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities.

100 Canadian Heroines profiles some remarkable women; from the adventurous Gudridur the Viking to murdered Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Aquash.

What are "snow worms"? Are there more moose than people in the Yukon? What is the meaning of the word "Niagara"? Where will you find the world’s largest perogy?

500 Years of New Words takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the 21st century.

Winner of the 1995 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award for the best book on native studies Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations contains seventeen essays on a

Few issues have polarized Canadians and Americans as much as the abortion debate.

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