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David Wingfield joined the Royal Navy in 1806, at the age of fourteen. His service took him to the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. Captured, he was a POW in the United States for nine months.

Quetico Park in northwestern Ontario celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009.

Originally published in the early 1950s, The Scalpel, the Sword celebrates the turbulent career of Dr.

Si l’on se fie à tous les principes de la guerre et à la logique militaire, le soutien logistique de la force opérationnelle Orion du Canada aurait dû s’écrouler en juillet 2006.

Saskatchewan and ghost stories. They go together like a grinning scarecrow in a whisper-dry October field.

When it comes to Q&A trivia, Doug Lennox has no peer. Sir Isaac Brock, Tecumseh, Laura Secord, Norman Bethune, Terry Fox, and Roberta Bondar are all Canadian icons we’ve come to cherish.

Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) is a name that instantly conjures up images of our rugged northern landscape and the controversial Group of Seven.

In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St.

Sandford Fleming knew fame and many honours later in life, but the path was not always easy.

Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of sixty Aboriginal men who left their occupations in the Ottawa River timber industry to participate in a military expedition on the Nile River i

Leonard Budgell saw the Canadian North like nobody else.

Winner of the 2011 OHS Donald Grant Creighton Award This book is about Major General Sir Isaac Brock (1769 - October 13, 1812).

Frances Stewart arrived in Upper Canada from Ireland in 1822 with her husband, three children, and two servants. The family settled in Douro Township on the bank of the Otonabee River in 1823.

Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan, in 1932, Allan Fotheringham has had a distinguished career. Dubbed "Dr.

This is the story of the creation and first four decades of one of Canada's pre-eminent cultural organizations.