Biography & Autobiography, Historical
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George Works! Lad to Leadership
The Making of a New Canadian by George E. Daniels
British citizen by birth and Canadian citizen by choice, George Daniels pens a fascinating autobiography of a life brimming with love, loss, adventure, creativity, personal and corporate achievement and recognition by his peers, Parliamentarians and ...
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As The Bombs Fell
My Childhood During the Time the Nazis Ruled by Otto Schmalz
You almost never get to hear the other side of the story. What was it like to be a child living in Germany as the country descended into war? What did kids do while their dads were away fighting and the rest of the family was living in either ...
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Inside the Chisolm Trail
by Reverend L.D. Ervin
Janie [Mason] Chisolm…a descendant of a royal family who ruled Scotland between 1200 and the mid-1700s. No longer in power, the ruling family and ancestors (the Chisolm Clan) migrated to the Americas. Some of the “Clan” leaders, after settling near ...
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Losing My Country, Keeping My Soul
by Allan Glass
It was 1967, and life in America was the best. I lived and surfed in Miami, Florida, where the waves were as big as the bikinis were small, and every day was another party. The war in Vietnam was an abstract thing. We all knew it would be over soon. ...
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Sketches From Siberia
The Life of Jacob D.Sudermann by Werner Toews
A poignant biography of Jacob Davidovitch Sudermann, a teacher and artist from a Russian Mennonite community who, like so many others, fell victim to the bloodthirsty paranoia of the Stalinist purges and died in a Siberian gulag in 1937. Sketches ...
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The Chief's Footsteps
A Social and Natural History Based on the Life and Times of Roy Peck of Danford Lake, Québec by Rick Blanchard
This book recounts the remarkable life of Roy Peck, a quintessential yet extraordinary Canadian. Born into an austere rural situation, he stuck by home and family through tough times and discovered the fun of living and the benefits of choosing ...
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That Lucky Old Son
Re-discovering My Father Through His World War II Bomber Command and POW Experiences by Mark Cote
A moving work of autobiographical fiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during ...
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Soldier of the Sixties
Part Three: Middle East and the Jungle by Robin Leigh
Soldier of the Sixties is an account of a very ordinary soldier serving in extraordinary circumstances - a historical record of what it was like to serve in the British Army more than fifty years ago. This story will be of great interest to anyone ...
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Smoke in the Wind
by Tony May
From the oilfields of the Alaskan high Arctic to the sultry hostile jungles of Indonesia, from the war-torn desert of Kuwait to tumultuous Thailand, West Texas oilfield engineer Bubba Cottonmill is thrown into a kind of turmoil he’s never ...
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The Professor and The Pilots
Letters Home from Wartime London by a Canadian Psychologist by Kathy Myers Krogh and Douglas Myers
This unique collection of letters offers a vivid glimpse of life in wartime London. C. Roger Myers, a young psychology professor at the University of Toronto, was appointed as advisor to the RAF on methods for pilot selection and training. His ...
