Search

In the years that James Douglas was director of the Beauport Asylum, the treatment of the mentally ill was a model for its time: starting with the notion that they were people too.

Like oil today, in 1843 coal was essential to economic development. But William Logan found no coal in the Province of Canada.

The hands that rocked the cradles of Canada’s prime ministers.

On the home front in World War II, Canadians lived a contradiction. They were told to save. And asked to spend.

Despite receiving less recognition than the army, Canada's navy and air force were crucial to the success of the D-Day invasion.

How a group of pacifists in sixties-era Ontario was forced to question its principles of non-violence.

Much of Canada’s early history was shaped by the presence of smallpox, a “speckled monster” as deadly as Ebola that wiped out whole communities. Could the disease rise again?

The 1918 flu epidemic felled nearly as many Canadians as the preceding war.

African-American singer and activist Paul Robeson’s short 1956 tour of Canada gave him a welcome respite from his treatment at home.

Our special advertising section includes the latest history titles along with other new and recent books from Canadian publishers.