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Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took hi

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.

Arthur James Marshall Smith — prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic — died in 1980.

The Self-Completing Tree is the author's own collection of the best of her last 50 years of writing.

Short-listed for the 2002 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research In the seventy years since 1931, various organizations large and small, including several semi-private ones, ha

Sherlock Holmes Handbook sums up a Canadian scholar's lifetime expertise about Sherlock Holmes -- the characters and themes, the publishers and readers, Victorian London and the Houdini connec

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.

Undergraduate fees for universities and colleges across Canada have more than doubled in every province over the past decade.

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.

Be it for a quickie pedicure or several hours of soulful pampering, people want to know where to go, and more importantly, what's going to happen to them once they get there.

Canadians visit chiropractors about 30 million times a year, and surveys show that patients are generally satisfied with their treatment.