Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: firebrand Metis leader Louis Riel; landscape painter James Wilson Morrice; Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson; revered novelist Robertson Davies; and the “Father of British Columbia,” James Douglas. Includes Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas
TheWestern world'sobsession with theNorth alsochanged its focusonanimal life,andon theimageof “Manthe Hunter.” The wolfand the bearhave always been mythically resonant, but after Darwin, these favourite animals of the North madea ...
Margaret Taylor joins himas assistant editor. 1928Canada's feature film Drifters will become Grierson's hallmark as he On, Sergeant!, fails because of lack of U.S. distribution. turns toproducing rather than directingfilms forthe next ...
Communication betweenthe miners andtheir bosses was resumed, andthe tensionofthe year beforeeased. Rockefeller had reestablished his reputation intheeyes of the public. He hadeven impressedMother Jones,a wellknown eightythreeyearold ...
At St. Thomas Church,ablack churchgoer, Augustus Halliday, felt that hehadtotake Communion last so that he would not offendother whitechurchgoers who would not want touse the Communioncup afterhim — thiseven by the 1900sandeven though ...
The important Canadian lives detailed here are: Emma Albani, a nineteenth century opera singer from Quebec who became a diva of the musical world; Emily Carr, the artist famous for capturing the essence in her paintings of the Native ...
The important Canadian lives detailed here are: John Franklin, while not a Canadian, an explorer whose demise in the Arctic is an important part of Canada’s historical identity; Marshall McLuhan, the academic who predicted so much of the ...
The waters of the Bay of Quinte shone in the distance in the warm autumn sunshine. JohnVickers, a man with a sharp nose and bushybeard, admired the monument he had commissioned in the memoryof his motherinlaw.
He experienced the painful loneliness of an outsider, aloneliness that was interrupted byrare sparks ofglory.On March 7th and8th, he played exceptional games against the Canadiens – two vintage Jacques Plante performances.
To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posterity - such was the ambition that fueled John A. Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence during the Civil War era. While...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a ...