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Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment.

Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career.

Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision.

Elizabeth Simcoe's diary, describing Canada from 1791 to 1796, is history written as it was being made.

Music Makers examines and celebrates the extraordinary lives of composer Harry Freedman and his partner, soloist Mary Morrison.Harry, with roots in jazz and popular music, was a member of the Toron

At the age of 37, Bill Harshaw was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.

In 1933, a young Canadian woman rejected the expectations of society and her upper-class family and became a crew member aboard one of the last great four-masted sailing vessels that still plied th

Born in London, England, of Cornish stock, David Watmough arrived on Canada’s West Coast in 1961 and quickly became a fixture on the Canadian cultural scene.

This is the story of a young man’s journey through World War II.

Barney Danson began as a twenty-one-year-old sergeant in the Canadian army and rose to the lofty heights of parliamentary secretary to Pierre Trudeau and, eventually, Minister of National Defence.

As Bob and Mildred Lee, they amazed audiences with their death-defying motorcycle act.

In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, l

This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

During the Battle of the Atlantic, Dr. George Hendry had just finished performing two major surgical operations on board the destroyer HMCS Ottawa when his ship was ambushed by 13 German U-boats.

Francis Simcoe was the eldest son of John Graves Simcoe and Elizabeth Gwillim.