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Extraordinary Canadians: With John Ralston Saul, Holly Uloth, Mark Nuttall, Mark Kingwell. Biographies with a twist. Canada's greatest writers rediscover the lives of Extraordinary Canadians.
31. März 2009 · Extraordinary Canadians: Norman Bethune. Hardcover – March 31 2009. The stormy and inspirational life of a Canadian doctor who is a hero in China. Honoured as a hero in China, Ontario-born Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and charismatic political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the ...
- Adrienne Clarkson
About Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin. Canada has no better interpreter than brilliant writer and thinker John Ralston Saul. Here he argues that modern Canada did not begin in 1867; rather its foundation was laid years earlier by two visionary men, Louis-Hipplyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin.
Extraordinary Canadians will air Sundays at 8:30pm ET/PT on Citytv, premiering Sunday, October 23, and later on The Biography Channel, airing Saturdays at 7:30pm ET/PT, premiering Saturday, October 29. The series will also air in Mandarin, Hindi and Italian language on OMNI Television in spring 2012.
26. Apr. 2022 · He is the author of the instant #1 national bestsellers Off the Record and Extraordinary Canadians, as well as the national bestseller Peter Mansbridge One on One: Favourite Conversations and the Stories Behind Them. He lives in Stratford, Ontario. Follow him on Twitter @PeterMansbridge, visit him at ThePeterMansbridge.com, or listen to his daily podcast,
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- Peter Mansbridge
Canadian humorist, essayist, teacher and political economist Stephen Leacock was born in England in 1869 and moved to Lake Simcoe, Ontario as a boy. He was educated at the prestigious Lower Canada College, however had to drop out and take a teaching job due to financial restrictions. Leacock eventually made the move to Montreal’s McGill University, where he quickly rose to become head of the ...
31. März 2009 · Hardcover – March 31 2009. Canada's foremost historian examines the life of a great humorist. Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever"mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj ...
- Margaret MacMillan
