Extraordinary Canadians
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Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation
By Peter MansbridgeThese stories will change the way you see your country and make you fall in love with Canada all over again.
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Extraordinary Canadians: Stephen Leacock
By Margaret MacMillanHistorian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight.
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Extraordinary Canadians: Emily Carr
By Lewis Desoto... Mark Kingwell LouisHippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin by John Ralston Saul Stephen Leacock by Margaret MacMillan Nellie McClung by Charlotte Gray Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland L.M. Montgomery by Jane Urquhart Lester B.
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Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont
By Joseph BoydenNow that Gabriel is a fullfledged fugitive of Canadian law as well as a bona fide hero of the plains, it makes great sense to Buffalo Bill Cody to include him in his famous “Wild West” show. Cody was so intrigued that he sent emissaries ...
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Extraordinary Canadians: Norman Bethune
By Adrienne ClarksonA year later, in March 1938, Dr. Norman Bethune arrived with two other foreigners to join the Communists as they turned ... Plekhanovs discussion of freedom and necessity would have intrigued Bethune, whose mind had been formed by the ...
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Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear
By Rudy WiebeBig Bear himself was arrested and imprisoned. Rudy Wiebe, author of a Governor General’s Award–winning novel about Big Bear, revisits the life of the eloquent statesman, one of Canada’s most important aboriginal leaders.
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Extraordinary Canadians: Maurice Richard
By Charles ForanAuthor Charles Foran argues that the province's passionate identification with Richard's success and struggles emboldened its people and changed Canada irrevocably.
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Extraordinary Canadians: Mordecai Richler
By M G VassanjiOne of Canada's top novelists examines the life and work of another Canadian Great.
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Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert
By John Ralston SaulCanada has no better interpreter than prolific writer and thinker John Ralston Saul.
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Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation
By Peter MansbridgeThis collection gets to the heart of what it means to be Canadian. These stories will change the way you see your country and make you fall in love with Canada all over again.
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Extraordinary Canadians: Tommy Douglas
By Vincent Lam... Lester B. Pearson, Extraordinary Canadians series. Toronto: Penguin Group (Canada), 2009. Douglas, Shirley. Author interviews, February 19, March 18, and November 27, 2010. Douglas, Tommy. Speeches of Tommy Douglas (collection of public ...