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The Mind of Norman Bethune

The mind of Norman Bethune contains the most important and revealing writings of Norman Bethune. Illustrated with over 100 contemporary photographs The Mind of Norman Bethune uncovers one of the most fascinating ...

Memoirs of a Less Traveled Road

By (author) Marcel Trudel
Translated by Jane Brierley
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Winner of the Governor General’s Award for translation Memoirs of a Less Traveled Road: A Historian’s Life is the absorbing and candid story of Marcel Trudel’s journey from the small village of ...

Benedict Arnold

By (author) Barry Wilson
Categories: History of the Americas

While most biographies of Arnold concentrate on his revolutionary exploits and subsequent treason, Wilson explores his role in Canadian history and the routes that brought him to Canada. He takes the ...

The Education of a Canadian

Gordon Skilling writes candidly of each way station in this personal odyssey: the idealism of his student years at the University of Toronto and Oxford; his presence in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the ...

Paddling Her Own Canoe

Frequently dismissed as a ‘nature poet’ and an ‘Indian Princess’ E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who ...

Where We Buried the Sun

The memoir of a young woman who in 1951 at the age of 17 was arrested for her involvement with an underground organization demanding alternatives to Stalinist rule and as a result spent five years in ...

With All Her Might

By (author) Gretchen Wilson
Categories: History of the Americas

Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and, when her sister moved to London in 1912, Harding went ...