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Naturalist, ornithologist, avocational archaeologist and poet, Winnipeg’s Dr. Robert W. Nero has authored nine books dealing with his amazing spectrum of interests.

Actress Mae West once said "I’ve been things and seen places." Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast.

Jacque Plante, the first National Hockey League goalie to regularly wear protective facemask, was known for roving out of his net.

At the age of nine, John Diefenbaker announced, "I'm going to be prime minister when I grow up." He never lost sight of his goal.

John Grierson, founder of both the British documentary film movement and the National Film Board of Canada, was one of the twentieth century’s most influential personalities in film culture.

Leaside is a most comprehensive look at the people, significant events and built heritage, all of which contributed to the creation of this distinctive community.

By taking on more than 120 judiciously chosen questions about wine and answering them clearly and rigorously, Marc Chapleau has dared to go into areas where others have feared to tread.

I was only six when I suspected my skin might be the wrong colour… Born female on the wrong side of the tracks, Eve Mills Nash, with the help of co-author Kenneth J.

Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during W

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.