The World of Gord

This candid, first-person memoir chronicles Russell's life from his humble beginnings in suburbia as a scrawny, brown, bullied kid with ...

I rarely ever watch hockey these days but growing up in the 60s I was a huge hockey fan. I ate slept and breathed hockey and lived and died ...

A Stompin' Tom Conners song tells the story of Wop May. As a result, I have always wanted to read about the life of this individual. ...

With the war in Afghanistan continuing and more and more of Canada's great soldiers dieing or coming home with serious wounds, when I sa...

I saw a list of the Giller Awards long list of nominees and realized that I have never purposely read a book because it has been nominated ...

From the Publisher : Telling tales and unearthing a history you won't find in tourist guides, this humorous book focuses on the quirky c...

With the super Canadian breweries, Labatt's and Molson's being sold to foreign interests, the last remaining major independent brewe...

This book has since been reprinted in 2005 and is now called Christine : SOE agent and Churchill's favourite spy .  " The remarkabl...

The Canadian Century, moving out of America's shadow is an inter-institute effort by Brian Lee Crowley (MacDonald-Laurier Institute for ...

Tecumseh was one of the great figures of the War of 1812. To me, he is the greatest aboriginal chief of all time. Other chiefs in the late 1...

With the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812 fast approaching, many historic sites from that period are sprucing up and new material about ...

Awhile ago, I found myself in the unusual position of not having anything that I wanted to read. Then I remembered that a friend of mine, Er...

I enjoy books on minor league baseball so this one caught my eye.  From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflatin...

The untold story of how war transformed the city of Halifax. Stephen Kimber recreates life in Halifax during the Second World War, a city tr...

" The true story of one of the most heroic feats of World War II...the daring prison camp breakout that inspired the classic film The G...

Teena picked up "Toronto Book of Everything" from the library for herself, and seeing as though I had given up on my other book ...

I have read dozens, and dozens, and perhaps dozens of books of the War of 1812, visited battlefields and forts, watched re-enactments and fe...

Every spring, impatient for baseball season to start, I head off to the library to pick up a book about (what else?) baseball. This year I p...

Everyday I go to a website, Today in Canadian History , to see what happened in this country on that day. On July 14, I was visiting the sit...