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Gold’s Rounds
Growing up on St Lawrence Boulevard, Phil Gold never aspired to be a doctor. But working as an encyclopedia salesman, a bottle washer at Molson, and a fur-coat schlepper in textile …
Never Rest on Your Ores
More than a century ago, a prospector discovered gold at Ontario’s Kirkland Lake and a son was born to British immigrants in Saskatchewan. The boy – Norman Bell Keevil – went on to …
Against the Current
The daunting adversities faced by a Belarusian refugee who found himself at the crossroads of history and geography
Red Travellers
The story of a life devoted to promoting communism illuminates Canadian labour and social history in the interwar years.
Crises and Compassion
Letiche, now in his nineties, provides an intriguing look at the changes that have occurred during his lifetime. Following his Kiev childhood and formative years in Depression-era …
My Peerless Story
In 1951, Alvin Cramer Segal, at the age of eighteen and without a formal education, started working in the factory of his stepfather's company in Montreal. Today he is the chairman …
I'm from Bouctouche, Me
The story of Donald Savoie, an accomplished writer and academic whose books have profoundly affected Canadian public policy and public administration
Blatant Injustice
A harrowing account of the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism during the war years.
Harrison McCain
The only rival to Harrison McCain's entrepreneurial success was his deep attachment to his Maritime roots. From McCain's beginnings in Florenceville, New Brunswick, the early …
Margaret Macdonald
During an era of separate spheres for men and women, Margaret Macdonald used her nurse's training to gain access to the military and a life of work, travel, and adventure. In 1906, …
Doctor to the North
The experiences of a university heart specialist and consultant to the Inuit of the eastern Canadian Arctic.
The Teeth of Time
A memoir about the forty-year friendship between Ramsay Cook and Pierre Elliott Trudeau.