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 ...

Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism is an examination of the origins of Walter Gordon’s nationalist ideology and its impact on Canada. It traces his ideas from his family influences and ...

Although Judith McKenzie deals with Jewett’s childhood and university years, much of this insightful story is devoted to her public life as a Member of Parliament for the federal Liberal Party and the ...

Anderson Ruffin Abbott graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1861, and became the first Canadian of African descent to train as a physician. Abraham Lincoln appointed him one ...

Compelling accounts of the people, issues, and events in the news.

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 ...

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. ...