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Leaside is a most comprehensive look at the people, significant events and built heritage, all of which contributed to the creation of this distinctive community.

By taking on more than 120 judiciously chosen questions about wine and answering them clearly and rigorously, Marc Chapleau has dared to go into areas where others have feared to tread.

I was only six when I suspected my skin might be the wrong colour… Born female on the wrong side of the tracks, Eve Mills Nash, with the help of co-author Kenneth J.

Louis Riel devoted his life to the Metis cause. A fiery activist, he struggled against injustice as he saw it.

Canadian surgeon Lucille Teasdale and her husband founded Lacor Hospital in northern Uganda in 1961.

Robert Boyer was a consummate Canadian, whose long career can be measured by words.

Mary Janeway, born in Scotland in 1887, came to Canada as a "home child" at a very young age.

During his 18-year reign as premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis dominated the province and shaped it to his image.

In 1927, Mazo de la Roche was an impoverished writer in Toronto when she won a $10,000 prize from the American magazine Atlantic Monthly for her novel Jalna.

Author Gord Deval is the grand "old guy" of sport fishing in Canada. Few anglers can match him when it comes to his familiarity with trout and fly fishing.

Margaret Macpherson holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has worked as a teacher and journalist in Halifax, Bermuda, and Vancouver.

Wilfrid Laurier’s life journey took him from a small Quebec village to the Parliament of Canada.

Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canada’s tenth and longest serving prime minister and an important figure on the international scene, especially during the Second World War.

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.