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George Brown (1818-1880) was the influential editor of the Toronto Globe, the most powerful newspaper in British North America. He was also leader of the Liberal Party, arch-rival of John A.

In the fifth year of the War of Independence, while the Americans focused on the British thrust against the Carolinas, the Canadian Department waged a decisive campaign against the northern frontie

This is the story of a “no military risk” campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare.

Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta.

Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services.

Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of terror for the Dutch people.

A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter’s Bay to the west of the town.

In 1898, Spanish spies based in Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria monitored the United States war effort against their homeland, while U.S. counter-intelligence officials watched the Spaniards.

Three beautiful gothic buildings loom over the Ottawa River just below the historic Chaudiere Falls.

First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail bio

Would you want to live in a factory-molded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath?

"We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to dives

The Capital Years is being published to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the opening of the first parliament of Upper Canada.Nine scholars have contributed to this book, which explores the

This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work.

Special Operations Forces (SOF) have never been an integral element of Canada’s military capability.