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This is the story of a “no military risk” campaign that slowly turned into a nightmare.

Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta.

Soon after Allan Pinkerton established his legendary detective agency in the United States, Canadians began seeking their services.

Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of terror for the Dutch people.

Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years.

It has been said that Canada is a country with too much geography and too little history. Afghanistan has too much of both.

A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter’s Bay to the west of the town.

In 1898, Spanish spies based in Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria monitored the United States war effort against their homeland, while U.S. counter-intelligence officials watched the Spaniards.

Three beautiful gothic buildings loom over the Ottawa River just below the historic Chaudiere Falls.

Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing centuries in the whole history of the visual arts in Canada - the period f

First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail bio

The Canadian Federal Election of 2006 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election that ended the 12-year Liberal reign in Canadian politics and saw the House of Commons

The General Election of 1997 did not turn out as Jean Chretien and the Liberal Party had planned.

Many saw it as a gamble for Jean Chretien: against the advice of party members, he called an early election.

Would you want to live in a factory-molded cube made of plastic, asbestos, and UFFI? With an "H-bomb shelter" and the nuclear furnace underneath?