These memoirs offer a compelling account of life in early British Columbia from the 1860s to the first decade of the 20th century. The wife of Judge Eli Harrison, one of the province’s foremost lawyers ...

Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific author, and editor. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within ...

At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canada and in the US as well. If I Could Turn and Meet Myself ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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. ...