Short answers, pulled from the story.
Stephanie Wolfe Murray and her husband Angus Wolfe Murray opened a small shop in Edinburgh during 1973. They named the business after the Canongate area of the city where they operated.
Jamie Byng led a management buyout to purchase the company from the receiver in 1994. Funds for this acquisition came from his stepfather Christopher Bland and his father-in-law Charlie McVeigh.
Yann Martel published Life of Pi through Canongate in 2001 with a specific edition released in 2002. This book became the first Scottish-published title to win the Booker Prize.
Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father received a Canongate edition in 2007 after emails between Jamie Byng and then-Senator Obama. The Audacity of Hope was acquired following these communications and released that same year.
In June 2010, a living archive of Canongate Books was established at the University of Dundee. This archive works with the university's Archive Services for teaching and research purposes.