The complete online text of When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker.

During the two decades surrounding the turn of the century, Gilbert Parker enjoyed international fame as a novelist who romanticized Quebec and the Canadian Northwest and as a public figure who spoke for Canada and the British empire. In 1902 he was knig...

In their own words, early European merchants, travellers and explorers describe what they saw when they visited Africa 500 years ago. One of them, a truly flabbergasted Major Dubois, a French scholar, wrote about the Malian city of Djenne in these words: "What is...

Many of his heroes had numbers on their backs, but one of ours usually didn't. Him. Kevin Kleist, who was 10, loved baseball, and we talked about that on a warm summer evening, and we talked about courage, and we talked about cribbage....