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The battle of Trafalgar decided a nation's fate, and this fascinating account tells the story of that crucial confrontation as it has never been told before.

Claude Lévi-Strauss est né en 1908 et mort centenaire, en 2009, tout près de nous, lecteurs du XXIe siècle. Il grandit dans une famille juive, bourgeoise, mais qui a connu des jours meilleurs.

The inspiring and true life story of Kimiko Murakami, a Japanese-Canadian pioneer and internment camp survivor, beautifully illustrated for a young audience.

The unlikely true story of Jennie Butchart, who saw the possibility of beauty in a hole in the ground and built a public garden that attracts millions of visitors from around the world.

A fully illustrated social history profiling forty historic hotels spread over five regions of the southern interior of British Columbia, covering the time period of the 1890s to 1950s.

In River of Mists, best-selling author and award-winning historian Geoff Mynett returns to the Skeena River community of Hazelton to shed new light on the wide spectrum of characters who left their

Coastal historian Jeanette Taylor unveils the unique past of Twin Islands.

His name was Horace Wrinch. It was 1880. He was fourteen years old, a farmer's boy from England travelling on his own to Quebec.

The year 1983 began like any other year in Canada's West Coast province. Then suddenly everything changed.

Collected wisdoms, reflections and stories from Indigenous Elder Naanii Nora of the Haida Nation.

Rock art—etched in blood-red lines into granite cliffs, boulders, and caves—appears as beguiling, graffiti-like abstraction. What are these signs?

A fascinating, photo-rich exploration of early aviation in Canada, told through the backstories of pilots who flew, fought, and risked their lives in the First World War, through the interwar perio

Winner of the 2020 Basil Stuart Stubbs Prize—winner of the 2019 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing.

Curious about the previous inhabitants of the lake community where her family has vacationed for over one hundred years, author Shelley O'Callaghan starts researching and writing about the are

No matter where people live on the BC coast, says Howard White, they have certain shared experiences: frustration with rain and ferries, familiarity with gumboots, bumbershoots, seagull droppings a