Quest Biographies Bundle - Books 1-10 : Emma Albani / Emily Carr / George Grant / Jacques Plante / John Diefenbaker / John Franklin / Marshall McLuhan / Phyllis Munday / Wilfrid Laurier / Nellie McClu EPUB
by Vladimir Konieczny, Darcy Dunton, Michelle Labreche-Larouche, T.F. Rigelhof, Arthur Slade, Raymond Plante, Kate Braid, Judith Fitzgerald, John Wilson, Kathryn Bridge, Roderick Stewart, Margaret Macpherson
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Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. 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 cultures of the coast of British Columbia; George Grant, a prescient political philosopher and author of Lament for a Nation; star NHL goalie Jacques Plante, the first netminder to don a protective mask; influential Prime Ministers John Diefenbaker and Sir Wilfrid Laurier; 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 modern media world we live in today; mountaineer and explorer Phyllis Munday; and early feminist icon Nellie McClung.
Includes- Emma Albani
- Emily Carr
- George Grant
- Jacques Plante
- John Diefenbaker
- John Franklin
- Marshall McLuhan
- Phyllis Munday
- Wilfrid Laurier
- Nellie McClung
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:1968 pages
- Publisher:Dundurn
- Publication Date:03/12/2013
- ISBN:9781459724365
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:1968 pages
- Publisher:Dundurn
- Publication Date:03/12/2013
- ISBN:9781459724365