163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of ...

Timeless tales about wilderness living. Eric Collier’s riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent homesteading in the isolated Chilcotin wilderness made ...

Brian Brennan is an award-winning, bestselling author who specializes in books about the colourful personalities and social history of western Canada.

Gray wrote his first book, The Winter Years, in 1946, ...

This new volume of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada (DCB / DBC) presents well-written, carefully documented and meticulously edited biographies of Canadians from ...

Walter W. Igersheimer was a distinguished clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale who undertook pioneering work in group therapy. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon.
Ian Darragh is an editor and writer whose ...

During his 18-year reign as premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis dominated the province and shaped it to his image. A brilliant orator and a scathing wit, Duplessis exercised complete control over his ...

A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlains passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized. He still dreamed of reaching India, with its spices and its many riches, ...

Nellie McClung. Her story was her faith. Her work, as politician, author and feminist reformer of the first half of this century, makes Nellie McClung: No Small Legacy a compelling and inspiring biography. ...

The struggle of the Métis of the Saskatchewan River against the government of Canada culminated in the Riel Rebellion of 1885—an event of central importance in shaping almost all of the key polarities ...