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  100 Fascinating Londoners

  Michael Baker, Hilary Bates Neary

  These brief biographies reflect a century and a half of London's history and reflect key events and fascinating adventures drawn from the lives of people from all walks of life who made a lasting impression on their hometown.

  $24.95, Paperback
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  Convoys of World War II

  Dorothy Pedersen

  Nine men tell their personal stories of life at sea during World War II. In extreme danger, they battled seasickness, injury, and less than comfortable living conditions while avoiding floating mines and torpedoes in their efforts to guide ships safely across the Atlantic Ocean.

  $9.95, Paperback
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  Mackenzie

  John Sewell

  In Mackenzie, A Political Biography, former Toronto mayor John Sewell tells us why William Lyon Mackenzie may in fact be the best model we have of a responsible politician.

  $29.95, Hardcover
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  J.B. McLachlan: A Biography

  David Frank

  Agitator, educator, organizer, J.B. McLachlan led the coal miners of Nova Scotia in their struggles for union recognition, united them around ideas of industrial democracy and social reconstruction, and defended their cause in the labour wars of the 1920s.

  $27.95, Paperback
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  The Politics of Kim Campbell

  Murray Dobbin

  This book looks at Canada's first woman Prime Minister - what she believed, how she operated in the back rooms, and why the Progressive Conservative party chose her.

  $14.95, Paperback
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  Your Worship

  Allan Levine

  First published in 1989, Your Worship examines the highlights and low-lights of the careers of eight Canadian mayors who served between the 1930s and 1980s.

  $6.99, Paperback
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  I Fought Riel

  Major Charles A. Boulton, Heather Robertson

  Louis Riel personally singled out Major Charles Arkoll Boulton for execution. Thomas Scott was shot instead, but Boulton never lost his visceral hatred for the "rebel chief".

  $45.00, Hardcover
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  Brian Mulroney

  Rae Murphy, Nick Auf der Maur, Robert Chodos

  Before the GST and before Free Trade, Brian Mulroney was a small town boy who announced at nineteen years old that he would one day be Prime Minister. This is his story.

  $9.95, Paperback
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  Louis 'David' Riel

  Thomas Flanagan

  Louis Riel is one of the great tragic heroes in Canadian history, and one of its most misunderstood. Was he a prophet or a madman? The debate rages still...

  $9.95, Paperback
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  The Making of a Secret Agent

  Frank Pickersgill, George H. Ford

  The engaging story of a young Canadian idealist who became a secret agent after coming face to face with the evil of Nazism.
  

  $9.95, Paperback
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  Cold War Over Canada

  E. Scott Maclagan

  A story of the Cold War over Canada told by RCAF flier Scott Maclagan. This memoir adds a fascinating chapter to Canada’s military history.

  $29.95, Paperback