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When sound arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s, Canadians were already holding some of the most important roles in the motion picture industry. Louis B.

This is the story of a seventeen year old boy who ran away from home to join the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

W. Gunther Plaut is an internationally recognized rabbi and scholar, and one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century.

If Ontario is the land that is ours to discover then surely Randall White has written a book of discovery.

The Ontario Book of Days is a light-hearted and whimsical chronicle of some of the most interesting events in Ontario’s history.

It started with a festival - three classic operas performed in a theatre in Toronto.

This official account of the crisis in the Persian Gulf traces the Canadian Forces commitment to the Gulf region in response to Iraqi aggression in 1990-1991.

Winner of the 2006 Fred Landon Award Osgoode Hall is a national monument and one of the architectural treasures of Canada.

This illustrated history of Ottawa traces the city's development from the days when Bytown was a lumber village to its emergence as Canada's capital and fourth-largest urban area.

During the Battle of the Atlantic, Dr. George Hendry had just finished performing two major surgical operations on board the destroyer HMCS Ottawa when his ship was ambushed by 13 German U-boats.

Francis Simcoe was the eldest son of John Graves Simcoe and Elizabeth Gwillim.

First published in 1977 this accessible general overview of Canada's contribution to the Second World War and of the war's effect on Canada's evolution.

This meticulously researched book traces the development of airborne forces from their earliest mythology to their earth-shattering debut in the Second World War.

Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society.

In the fall of 1956, the world was on the brink of war. Egyptian President Gamel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, and Britain, France, and Israel attacked him.