Here are some of the most famous love stories in Canadian history. Once you’ve read Great Canadian Romances you will come away thoroughly intrigued by the parts of our past they don’t teach in school:

• Canadians were awestruck when the best hockey player the world has ever seen married a beautiful Hollywood starlet—right here in Canada!
• René Angelil wept the first time he heard little Celine Dion sing. He became her manager and later her beloved husband.
• The life of Francis Rattenbury, the renowned architect, came to an abrupt end when he was bludgeoned to death by his second wife’s insanely jealous teenage lover!
• On March  5, 1971, Canadians woke up to the shocking news that the evening before, 51-year-old Pierre Elliott Trudeau, their handsome, playboy prime minister, had married a 22-year-old flowerchild, Margaret Sinclair.
• The 1960s was not an era when sex, spies and scandal were associated with Canada—or so Canadians thought until the Gerda Munsinger affair hit the news.
• The entire world fell in love with wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen as he set out on his Man In Motion Tour, but it was Amanda Reid who captured his heart.