In the first decades of the 20th century, Cape Breton miners faced soldiers, machine guns, prison sentences, starvation, homelessness.

A fascinating story of a privileged Toronto youth who rose to fight for the establishment of the state of Israel.

In this book you'll meet ten fascinating Canadian women.

The story of a pioneering Canadian newspaperwoman who became a legend in her own time.

Red Toryism is a peculiarly Canadian phonomenon: a heritage of radical populism that stands at the very foundation of our national life.

When the people of Toberly Bay, Newfoundland first saw a blue Saab with B.C. plates and two city people in it driving down their main street, they didn't know what to make of it.

Doug Harvey was just twenty when he went to Britain to fly bombers night after night over Germany. Like hundreds of other young Canadians, he discovered love, sex, fighting, dying, booze and European living - all at once.

In 1933, Jean Ewen was a recently graduated nurse who couldn't find a job. When she was offered an opportunity to go to war-torn China to work alongside missionaries, she jumped at the chance - and stayed there for four eventful years.

E. P. Taylor was one of the greatest and most successful business figures of the 20th century.