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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.

Born in Montreal, Oliver Jones performed his first piano concert at five years old.

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.

David, an Anglican parish priest, has no way of knowing that his place in the world is about to be shaken irrevocably.

In 1924 Phyllis (Phyl) Munday did what no other woman had done before - reached the summit of Mt. Robson. She climbed close to 100 mountains in her lifetime, many of those first ascents.

The psalms are among the most sublime poetry in the world, offering us inexhaustible wells of meaning.