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Did you know that the idea behind the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes was first tried out in Toronto? That Canada produced the world’s longest-running annual revue?

A remarkable cast of past and present young Canadians stride across the pages of Legends In Their Time, each having a significant role to play in Canadian history.

Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died.

This is the first fully documented account, produced in modern times, of the migration of Scots to Lower Canada.

Having been born in a tent on Bear Island, Lake Temagami, in 1908, Madeline Katt Theriault could recall an earlier independent and traditional First Nations lifestyle.

The women pilots profiled in this book have flown from British Columbia to Newfoundland and in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails.

The Town of Orangeville has a colourful, exciting past – a history being documented in book form for the first time.

The most ancient and least disturbed forest ecosystem in eastern North America clings to the vertical cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment.

Freshwater Heritage: A History of Sail on the Great Lakes, 1670-1918 represents the culmination of a lifelong passion for sailing and for the history of sail as it applies to Canada.

Capturing the French River introduces a rare collection of exceptional photographs taken along the river between 1910 and 1927 by Doctors J.

In Africa, every minute of every day, five people die of AIDS and nine more are newly infected.

Charlie McKelvey goes to his northern hometown to find that the big city isn’t the only place with big problems.

Lemon-Aid guides steer the confused and anxious buyer through the economic meltdown unlike any other car-and-truck books on the market. U.S.

In April 1941, a passenger ship was attacked and sunk by Nazi Germans. This is the story of seven Canadian women survivors detained in Germany.