Each theme is introduced by an essay and includes excerpts selected from more than 2,400 issues of Maclean's magazine, including bylines of such celebrated Canadians as Nellie McClung, Morley Callaghan, Pierre Berton, June Callwood, Allan Fotheringham, and Peter C. Newman. The lively, opinionated, and insightful text is complemented throughout by over 350 archival photographs and illustrations; both celebrated iconic images and rarely seen pictures of Canada and Canadians through the century.