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In a career that spanned five decades, Elmer Iseler proved himself pivotal to the development of choral music in Canada.

In this comprehensive biography, Christine Mander depicts the life and times of Emily Murphy with a refreshing candor and vitality.

In geology an erratic is a "boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier." In award-winning novelist Mark Frutkin’s case, his movement fro

Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald – where violence was meaningless bec

Regimental histories are a virtual window to a nation. They provide insight into a country’s culture, values, and martial spirit.

From Pioneer Public Health Nurse to Advocate for the Aged: Eunice Henrietta Dyke.

Frederick Horsman Varley was unique among the members of the Group of Seven.

On February 20, 1959, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker announced to the House of Commons the cancellation of the CF-105 Arrow. Its development costs to that time were $340 million.

In 1759, Voltaire in Candide referred to Canada as "quelques arpents de neige." For several centuries, the image prevailed and was the one most frequently used by poets, writers, and illu

The half-century since Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1952 has witnessed many changes, some for good and some for ill.

In The Firebrand, William Kilbourn brings to life the rebel Canadian hero William Lyon Mackenzie.

Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first female senator, was one of nine children raised in an atmosphere of rugged Scots liberalism and strict presbyterianism by affluent Montreal parents in the late ninete

Flim Flam explores the world of Canadian white-collar crime, a place inhabited by hustlers, wild gamblers, and crazy dreamers.

Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nation’s history.

Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation.