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The Order of Canada, the country's highest honour, is awarded to those who have made a distinct contribution to Canadian life.

Third-generation Chinese-Canadian Arlene Chan shares the rich histories of Toronto’s Chinese-Canadian communities in this special four-book bundle.

Paddles Up!

The Chinese have become a vibrant part of Toronto’s multiculturalism, with no less than seven Chinatowns created since 1984.

The history of the Chinese community in Toronto is rich with stories drawn from over 150 years of life in Canada.

The Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour, is awarded to those who have made a distinct contribution to Canadian life.

A shy and lonely seventeen-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy - and becomes one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.

Although unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1966, this novel delivers a full measure of action at sea.

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession...

Sailing the frigate Lydia, Captain Hornblower has orders to track down and sink the Natividad, a Spanish ship with twice his fire power.

His Majesty's Ship Sutherland - of two decks and seventy-four guns - is a humdrum ship of the line.

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad.

As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napol

As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.

April 1803.