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At the age of nine, John Diefenbaker announced, "I'm going to be prime minister when I grow up." He never lost sight of his goal.

John Grierson, founder of both the British documentary film movement and the National Film Board of Canada, was one of the twentieth century’s most influential personalities in film culture.

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.

Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964.

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.

A travel narrative written over the course of ten years, One Russia, Two Chinas is about change and resistance to change in the postmodern world.

The boreal forest of Quebec/Labrador -- some of the most rugged and isolated land in Canada -- has captivated avid canoeists for generations.

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