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Capital Lives by Valerie Knowles
Price $ 17.00>> 
 Ottawans
owe Valerie Knowles a debt of gratitude for searching and recording
on paper for our enlightenment, the lives of 32 well-known citizens
from the past. What riches she has uncovered about these remarkable
men and women, and what they did to build the cornerstones and fabric
of our community.
This informative book will leave a legacy for Ottawa of what these
citizens have done to enrich and preserve, not only our city, but
also the whole of humanity.
Valerie Knowles is a Montreal-born writer who has degrees from
Smith College, McGill University and Carleton University. In addition
to writing for newspapers, magazines and federal government departments,
she has taught history and worked briefly as an archivist. Mrs.
Knowles has written nine non-fiction works, three of which are trade
books published by Dundurn Press, Toronto. Her most recent book,
From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne, won
the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography
for 2004, and the City of Ottawa non-fiction award for 2005.
- Creative Artists
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)
Madge Macbeth (1878-1965)
Irene Spry (1907-1998)
Victor Tolgesy (1928-1980)
- Engineers
Thomas Coltrin Keefer (1821-1915)
Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
Sir Collingwood Schreiber (1831-1918)
- Entrepreneurs
Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey (1784-1857)
Henry Franklin Bronson (1817-1889)
Moss Kent Dickinson (1822-1897)
John Rudolphus Booth (1827-1925)
Alexander Smith Woodburn (1830-1940)
Thomas Ahearn (1855-1938)
William Washington Wylie (1860-1921)
G. Cecil Morrison (1890-1979)
- Mayors
Harold Fisher (1877-1928)
Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975)
- MPs and Judges
Sir Richard William Scott (1825-1913)
Sir Lyman Duff (1865-1955)
Senator Cairine Wilson (1885-1962)
Senator Eugene Forsey (1904-1991)
- Philanthropists
Lady Adeline Foster (1844-1919)
Lillian Freiman (1885-1940)
Lotta Hitschmanova (1909-1990)
Trudi Le Caine (1911-1999)
- Physicians
Dr. Hamnett Hill (1811-1898)
Dr. Frederick Montizambert (1843-1929)
- Public Servants
Sir John George Bourinot (1836-1902)
Arthur Percy Sherwood (1854-1940)
William Terrill Macoun (1869-1933)
Eric Brown (1877-1939)
Marius Barbeau (1883-1969)
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