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A child survivor, a child of survivors and a grandchild of a survivor, Sidney Zoltak is all these things.

Textbooks describe cancer as a malignant tumour or growth, caused when cells multiply uncontrollably.

For 11 months Calvin White worked for Doctors Without Borders as a mental health specialist in the off-the-radar region of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan.

Geza Tatrallyay was born in Budapest, Hungary, and escaped with his family in 1956, immigrating to Canada.

Sarah & Abraham: The Search for Miracles and the Stuttering Poet is a stranger than fiction account of a woman's reach for miracles and her conflicted love for Montreal poet, Avi Boxer.

Success and promotion within Toronto's public transportation system come at a price. The shifts bring both physical and mental stress.

Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007.

A vividly wrought memoir, Last Dance in Shediac is a collection of the author’s personal memories of her mother—celebrated Canadian artist Molly Lamb Bobak—and a tender meditation on life and death

The wildest, loveliest and least-travelled region of Alberta was R.M. Patterson’s home territory in the 1930s and ’40s.

An updated edition of Herb Belcourt’s remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author.

Brought into the media spotlight by her great-niece Pamela Anderson, Auntie Vie burst onto the scene as Pamela’s biggest supporter on “Dancing with the Stars.” Unexpectedly, Auntie Vie’s distinctiv

Harold Mortimer-Lamb’s name is in the index of almost every book written on the history of Canadian art, yet his place in that world has never been clear.

A wealthy madam who was known from San Francisco to Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was glamorous, worldly and determined to succeed.

Keeping the peace in turn-of-the-century B.C. Murderers, thieves and drunks tested the will of Superintendent Fred Hussey, the B.C.

Out of print for more than 40 years, this is an intimate and heartwarming biography that throws a whole new light on one of Canada's most beloved and iconic artists.