Book
Faces from history : Canadian profiles & portraits
Record details
- ISBN: 0888301510 :
- ISBN: 9780888301512 :
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Physical Description:
254 pages : portraits ; 31 cm.
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Edmonton : Hurtig Publishers, 1978.
- Copyright: ©1978
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The Colonial Period -- William Lyon Mackenzie -- Allan McNab -- Robert Baldwin -- Fancis Hinks -- Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine -- John Sandfield Macdonald -- Egerton Ryerson -- George Simpson -- William Hamilton Merritt -- Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski -- William Molson -- 2. The Men of Confederation -- John Alexander Macdonald -- George-Étienne Carier -- Joseph Howe -- Alexander Tilloch Galt -- Thomas D'Arcy McGee -- George Brown -- Samuel Leonard Tilley -- Charles Tupper -- 3. From Ocean Unto Ocean -- Hugh Allen -- Alexander Mackenzie -- Donald Alexander Smith -- George Stephen -- William Van Horne -- Oliver Mowat -- D'Alton McCarthy -- Edward Blake -- Wilfrid Laurier -- Clifford Sifton -- Richard John Cartwright -- Timothy Eaton -- Margaret Murray -- John Wilson Bengough -- Alexander Graham Bell -- 4. The Fact of Quebec -- Louis-Joseph Papineau -- Rodolphe Laflamme -- Antoine-Aimé Dorion -- Ignace Bourget -- Elzéar Alexandre Taschereau -- Honoré Mercier -- Joseph-Israel Tarte -- Henri Bourassa -- Camillien Houde -- Lionel-Adolphe Groulx -- Louis-Honoré Fréchette -- Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé -- Émile Nelligan -- 5. The Opening of the West -- Louis Riel -- Alexandre-Antonin Taché -- Adams George Archibald -- John Norquay -- James Morrow Walsh -- Samuel Benfield Steele -- Albert Lacombe -- Edgar Dewdney -- Gabriel Dumont -- Crowfoot -- Poundmaker -- Big Bear -- William Dillon Otter -- Sandford Fleming -- Piapot -- Nicholas Flood Davin -- Robert Chambers Edwards -- Almighty Voice -- John Ware -- George Mercer Dawson -- Charles Edward Saunders -- 6. Land Beyond the Mountains -- James Douglas -- Amor de Cosmos -- John Sebastian Helmcken -- Matthew Baillie Begbie -- John Robson -- William Baker -- William Duncan -- David Oppenheimer -- Kootenay Brown -- Peter Vasil'evich Verigin -- Simon Gun-an-Noot -- 7. The True North -- John Rae -- Robert Campbell -- William Carpenter Bompas -- Wilfred Thomason Grenfell -- Joseph-Elzéar Bernier -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- Wop May -- Henry Asbjorn Larsen -- 8. Provinces of the Mind -- Susanna Moodie -- Catharine Parr Traill -- Charles Mair -- Charles G. D. Roberts -- Archibald Lampman -- Duncan Campbell Scott -- Ralph Connor -- Stephen Leacock -- Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Nellie McClung -- Grey Owl -- Pauline Johnson -- Frederick Philip Grove -- Paul Kane -- Cornelius Krieghoff -- William Notman -- Tom Thomson -- Alexander Young Jackson -- Emily Carr -- George Monro Grant -- Goldwin Smith -- Harold Adams Innis -- 9. Days of Trial -- Robert Laird Borden -- Arthur William Currie -- Arthur Meighan -- William Lyon Mackenzie King -- John Wesley Dafoe -- Emily Gowan Murphy -- Thomas Alexander Crerar -- Agnes Macphail -- Richard Bedford Bennett -- James Shaver Woodsworth -- William Aberhart |
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| Subject: | Canada -- Biography -- Portraits Canada -- Biography |
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | 920.071 WOO (Text) | 33294000213652 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Did you know that Rene Levesque was born in the town where Sir Wilfred Laurier want to school? That Sir George Simpson was unkind to women> That Stephen Leacock wrote several tediousbooks on political economy? That Susanna Moodie's neighbours thought her a snob? And do you know who was the first Canadian to become a general? Which Indian hero escaped capture for thirteen years? Which Canadian poet went mad? These and many other intriguing details are given in 'Faces from History' which is a form of Canadian family album, a collection of 120 portraits, each of which is accompanied by a forthright biography.
