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"The Way We Were"
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most...
Out of the Shadows
Canada in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
First published in 1977 this accessible general overview of Canada's contribution to the Second World War and of the war's effect on Canada's evolution. This revised edition incorporates new information, particularly in the realms of intelligence and cipher, allowing new interpretations of policies and operations. It also makes new judgements on Canadian generalship.
Tilted
The Trials of Conrad Black, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
It was the trial that captivated observers on both sides of the Atlantic. Media titan Conrad Black, by turns respected and reviled for decades in Canada and around the world, faced off with U.S. prosecutors on charges of criminal fraud stemming from his activities with Hollinger International.
As...
Clinic of Hope
The Story of Rene Caisse and Essiac
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
This is the story of Rene M. Caisse of Bracebridge, Canada and describes her extraordinary perseverance to obtain official recognition of her herbal cancer remedy she called Essiac, her name spelled backwards. Rene Caisse was thrust into a life-long medical-legal-political controversy that still persists...
by Alice Zorn
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
A searing and compassionate portrayal of family members who lose loved ones to depression, suicide, or kidnapping
Author lost her own sister to suicide and writes from a place of painfully true experience
The lives of the three main characters are deftly interwoven, and Zorn leaves a trail of breadcrumbs...
Uncertain Justice
Canadian Women and Capital Punishment, 1754-1953
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery. She was the first woman condemned to die in Canada, but would not be the last.
In Uncertain Justice, Beverley Boissery and Murray Greenwood portray a cast of women characters almost as often wronged by the law...
The Canadian UFO Report
The Best Cases Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
The Canadian UFO Reports is a popular history of the UFO phenomenon in Canada, something that has captured the imaginations of young and old alike. Drawn from government documents and civilian case files - many previously unpublished - the book includes a chronological overview of the best Canadian...
Charlie Red Star
True Reports of One of North America's Biggest UFO Sightings
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
A wave of UFO sightings struck southern Manitoba in 1975, with possible connections to U.S. missile defense operations.
In 1975, Manitobans reported UFOs over their province almost nightly. The string of unprecedented sightings launched the biggest UFO craze in Canadian history. With sightings...
by Chris A. Rutkowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
UF0s are a truly global phenomenon. Although many of the best-known cases have taken place in North America, amazing stories of witnesses’ encounters with strange disc-shaped objects (and their occupants) have come from every corner of the globe.
From a floating platform watched by dozens...
The UFO Files
The Canadian Connection Exposed
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
The UFO Files digs deep into the government's archives to unravel the true story of Canada's fascinating connection to the UFO phenomenon. Weaving together eyewitness accounts and secret government files, including newly declassified documents, Palmiro Campagna relates some startling episodes in Canadian...
Margaret and Charley
The Personal Story of Dr. Charles Best, the Co-Discoverer of Insulin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Although Charles Best is known for discovering insulin, the story of his life neither begins nor ends with that one moment. Not only did he make many other discoveries, he was also one half of an extraordinary couple who, during their almost sixty years together, were involved in many of the significant...
Raw Life
Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Rare views of human lives in turmoil are revealed in several hundred trials conducted in 1890s Muskoka by Magistrate James Boyer of Bracebridge. The charges and evidence show how raw life really was in Canada's frontier towns, with cases ranging from nostalgic and humorous to pitiable and deeply disturbing.
While...
Fortune Favours the Brave
Tales of Courage and Tenacity in Canadian Military History
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Many Canadians see the role their country's military plays in Afghanistan as an anomaly. However, this assumption is far from the truth. As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has commented, "Canadians are fierce fighters." Fortune Favours the Brave certainly proves this point in a...
Maple Leaf in Space
Canada's Astronauts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, Julie Payette, Robert Thirsk, Chris Hadfield, and more recently, Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque de Soleil, all have one thing in common: they’re some of the very few Canadians who have been in space.
The launch of a spaceship is terribly exciting. That’s...