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It wasn’t so much a big blue machine that chugged its way across Ontario’s political landscape in the spring of 1995 — it was more a big purple bulldozer driven by leader Mike Harris and a new bree

Steamboats carrying passengers from Hamilton to Montreal via the rapids of the St. Lawrence were a popular sight in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

These published rolls are intended to provide a fairly comprehensive list of the loyal colonials who joined the Provincial Corps of the British Army, 1775-1784, that were part of the Northern, or C

These observations and quotations comprise a witty anthology of anecdotes by and about the royal family in Canada over the last 400 years.

A beautiful and nostalgic look at the royal tour that captured a generation — the first visit of a reigning monarch to Canada.

The image of the scrum – a beleaguered politican surrounded by jockeying reporters – is central to our perception of Ottawa.

One of only fifty infantry battalions to see action with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, the 58th nevertheless had no official history.

In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier’s arrival, Prince Edward Island’s history has been tied to the sea and to ships.

The stories of many POW escapees are well known, but what about those who miraculously evaded capture in the first place and returned to fight another day?

Show No Fear is a collection of essays that captures the richness of Canadian military history.

For the first time, Sing a New Song tells the stories of four Canadian bishops who pushed the envelope and changed the world.

What do Northtrop Frye, French dairy cows, and Historic Fort York have in common?

In 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days.

They come from the cities and farms, military bases and tourist towns, seaside bungalows and urban apartments. All are ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

"You’ll like Louis Mayer," Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943.