Guide to the origins of 1,180 Ontario community names, from the historical and dignified to the eccentric and occasionally absurd.

Wartime argument for compulsory national military service in Canada, published in 1917 at the height of the conscription crisis. Merritt was president of the Canadian Defence League and a prominent advocate for compulsory military service. He died of influenza in October 1918, weeks before the armistice, having lived to see both the conscription he championed and the bitter French-English divisions it provoked. The town of Merritt, British Columbia is named after him.

Lectures on European art by Robert Cassels, the first registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, sworn in on October 8, 1875.

Account of the Canadian tainted blood scandal, in which thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1980s.

True crime account of the 1895 Valleyfield murder committed by Valentine Shortis, whose trial became a political battleground between Quebec and federal authorities.

History of the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, from its design by Francis Rattenbury and opening in 1908 to its enduring place as one of Canada's grand railway hotels.

Illustrated history of Mississauga, tracing its development from rural Peel County townships to a major Ontario city.