Between 1881 and 1884, over 17,000 Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, and later to maintain it. Several thousand came from the coastal areas of the United ...

We all know that the art of conversation is crucial for language and cognitive development in Early Years, as it forms the foundations for all future learning. Linaker Primary School has a higher-than ...

“Check out the cover,” the author Mark Bourrie wrote on the social-media app BlueSky last week, with a link to an Amazon listing for a book titled Mark Carney: A Biography Book Exploring His ...

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One of his fond memories is of a trip that Merrill sent him on to Princeton where friends introduced him to Kathryn, widow of Cornelius Ryan, famous writer of WW2 books. He spent a day with her in her ...

Inside the bellies of C-47 Dakotas, Canadian paratroopers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion clenched their jaws, hearts pounding. This wasn't just another jump—this was a leap into history.

A cross-cultural love story set in Vancouver and on European battlefields in the early 1940s, the story focuses on Chinese-Canadian Josiah ... “I read a lot of books,” said Wang whose ...

CBC Books' 2024 writers to watch Ai Jiang is a Chinese Canadian writer of speculative fiction and a 2022 finalist of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her other short novels include Linghun ...

(TouchWood Editions, Submitted by Iona Whishaw ) The Cost of a Hostage by Iona Whishaw is the #1 Canadian fiction book this week. In the Cost of a Hostage, Lane's quiet August morning is jolted ...

Britain's oldest surviving World War Two veteran and one of the country's oldest living couples were among dozens who marked the 80th anniversary of VE Day at the National Memorial Arboretum.