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Author : Adrienne Clarkson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322671877
Author : Adrienne Clarkson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143175209
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 1930s. His prodigious energy included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Adrienne Clarkson, a Chinese Canadian, has always been fascinated by the dynamic man who married his social conscience to his medical mission. Reviled as a Communist by some, revered as a humanitarian by others, Bethune was a complicated, inspirational figure who lived and loved on a large canvas.
Author : Roderick Stewart,Sharon Roberta Stewart
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773538191
A biographical account of the life of Norman Bethune, detailing the story of his life including his career as a surgeon, his fight to eradicate tuberculosis, his commitment to establish a medicare system in Canada, and his communist ideologies, through considerable research and interviews with friends, family, former patients and colleagues.
Author : Rudy Wiebe
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143172703
Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused to negotiate with aboriginal leaders, some of his followers killed 9 people at Frog Lake in 1885. Big 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.
Author : Andre Pratte
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143180449
Everyone knows that Wilfrid Laurier was a great prime minister, an astonishing speaker, and a survivor. But nobody has looked at him as more than a mythological figure for a very long time. André Pratte, chief editorial writer of La Presse, uncovers Laurier's full complexity amid the charged political circumstances of the early 20th century. Laurier tried to unite a country deeply divided in the wake of the First World War, grappling with the thorny questions of minority rights, multiple cultures, and regional tensions. A superb orator—his defence of Louis Riel established him as perhaps Canada's greatest speaker—he talked to his listeners as if they were as intelligent and well-read as he. Pratte reveals a Laurier who did not have to create a special political strategy in order to deal with the complexities of Canada. His personality, in and of itself, was a mirror of that complexity. Pratte's Laurier affirms our long and stable history, while recognizing that events are never predictable. Like Laurier, great leaders must accept both to govern Canada successfully.
Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Atlas and Company
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935633167
Surveys the life and career of the social theorist best known for the quotation, "The medium is the message, " who helped shape the culture of the 1960s and predicted the future of television and the rise of the Internet.
Author : Ethan Lou
Publisher : Signal
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771029974
A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020 In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and—unwittingly—into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it. Lou argues that the coronavirus outbreak will have a far greater impact than SARS, for example, simply because China is now many more times integrated with the increasingly interconnected world. Over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic. A crisis like it has thus been long overdue—and we have yet to see it unfold fully. In our integrated world, events that may previously be isolated now ripple farther and wider and in ways we do not expect and cannot foresee. We have not seen the worst, and if and when we outlast this pandemic, nothing will ever be the same. Decisions now—or indecisions—will shape and define the world for decades. These ideas are fleshed out through the virus's spawning and how it spread, the unprecedented measures to contain it and an examination of past pandemics and other crises and how they shaped the world--and an argument for why this one's different. Lou shows how drastically the virus has transformed the world and charts the greater and more radical shifts to come. His ideas and arguments are framed around his unintentionally tumultuous journey around the world, whose path the virus seemed to follow until he landed safely in quarantine in a small town in Germany, where he was able to take stock and start telling his story.
Author : Roderick Stewart,Sharon Stewart
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773586031
Restless, dynamic, conflicted, a surgeon, an artist, and a writer, Norman Bethune was an extraordinary Canadian. Brilliant, yet erratic, Bethune's life was characterized by cycles of achievement and self-destruction and his adventurous spirit led him from the operating rooms of Montreal to the battlegrounds of Spain and China. In Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune Roderick and Sharon Stewart provide the intriguing details of Bethune's controversial career as a surgeon, his turbulent personal life, his passionate crusade to eradicate tuberculosis, and his pioneering commitment to the establishment of medicare in Canada. They also examine the reasoning that led Bethune to embrace Marxism and show the depth of his faith in the triumph of communism over fascism - a commitment that drove him to take risk after risk and ultimately led to his death from an infection caught while performing battlefield surgery in remote northern China. Based on extensive research in Canada, Spain, and China, and in-depth interviews with Bethune's family, friends, colleagues, and patients, Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune is the definitive Bethune biography for our time.
Author : Andrew Cohen
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143172697
In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, later serving as president of its General Assembly. He put Canada on the world stage when he won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his handling of the Suez Crisis, during which he brokered the formation of a UN peacekeeping force. Author Andrew Cohen, whose books have focused on Canada’s place in the world, is the perfect author to assess Pearson’s legacy.
Author : Charles Ritchie
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551996783
Charles Ritchie, one of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps from the page. In wartime England, Ritchie, as Second Secretary at the Canadian High Commission, served as private secretary to Vincent Massey, whose second-in-command was Lester B. Pearson, future prime minister of Canada. In a perfect position to observe both statecraft and the London social whirl that continued even during the war, Ritchie provides a fascinating, perceptive, and (surprisingly) humorous picture of the London Blitz – the people in the parks, the shabby streets, the heightened love affairs – and the vagaries of the British at war. There are also glimpses of the great, and portraits of noted artists and writers that he knew well. A vivid document of a period and a wonderful piece of writing, The Siren Years has become a classic.
Author : Adrienne Clarkson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143182313
Adrienne Clarkson grew up in Ottawa after her family escaped Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942. Decades later, she would become Canada’s 26th governor general. Clarkson reached out to Canadians everywhere, refashioning Rideau Hall into a real home and welcoming the public. Her determination to invest meaning in her official actions created controversy, and in her memoir, Clarkson reflects on the behind-the-scenes political machinations. Heart Matters is more than a public life remembered—it chronicles an astonishing journey through triumph and turmoil. Remarkably insightful and inspiring, it is an extraordinary work by an extraordinary Canadian.
Author : Frances Hern
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552778128
"Within hours of his arrival, Norman was taken to meet Chairman Mao Zedong. The smiling man grabbed Norman's hands in welcome....The two men talked for hours." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: history or biography. One of the world's top surgeons, an advocate of democratic medical services, and an international humanitarian, Norman Bethune risked his life to deliver blood to the front lines. He is revered in China as a hero, where he was a personal friend of Chairman Mao Zedong, and his unceasing and inventive work established a lasting bond between his adopted people and this heroic Canadian.
Author : Merna Forster
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550025149
100 Canadian Heroines profiles some remarkable women from the adventurous Gudridur the Viking to murdered Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Aquash. You'll meet heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures like mountaineer Phyllis Munday, activist Hide Shimizu, Arctic guide Tookoolito, unionist Léa Roback, sexy movie mogul Mary Pickford and singer Portia White. Great quotes and photos are featured in this inspiring collection. As we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Persons Case on October 18, 2004, discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud of. Find out how we're remembering them. Or not!
Author : Joseph Boyden
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39076002902653
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188).
Author : Maxine Trottier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439961041
Presents the true stories of five Canadian leaders.