“It is difficult for recent generations to imagine the fear which ‘infantile paralysis’ or poliomyelitis engendered half a century ago. Epidemics developed throughout the world, generally during ...

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, ...

“We the people of the United States”—so began the American Constitution of 1787. Within a few years, this young country, made up mainly of eastern seaboard states, suddenly became part of a continent. ...

Booze is a history of Canadian drink and drinking from the European conquest to the present. Filled with photographs, ads, and cartoons, this multifaceted story features the liquor traffic, alcohol in ...

Between Two Wars is the second book by journalist Israel Medres to be translated in recent years into both English and French. When it was first published in the original Yiddish version almost forty years ...

A richly illustrated chronicle that captures more than a century of life on a landmark Fraser Valley farm. This fascinating account details farming methods of a bygone era and all the toil, triumph and ...

Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some ...

Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug Knight ...

Bill Rompkey was a teacher, school superintendent, and civil servant in Newfoundland/Labrador before his election to the House of Commons in 1972 and his appointment to the Senate in 1995, where he still ...