BUILDING A PROVINCE: 60 ALBERTA LIVES
Building A Province: 60 Alberta Lives
ISBN 978-1894004534
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In his first book, former Calgary Herald journalist Brian Brennan explores the lives and legacies of 60 men and women whose accomplishments have built a remarkable province.
From ordinary Albertans to such well-known individuals as W.O. Mitchell, Bob Edwards, Wilf Carter, Grant Notley and Roloff Beny, Building a Province pays tribute to these Alberta visionaries and builders, and celebrates the strong foundation they built for future growth.
” … well researched, authoritative and entertaining …” – Alberta History
” … thoroughly readable … an impressive collection …” – Fast Forward weekly
” … a solid piece of history … and an insight into some of the people that have brought Alberta this far …” – Catholic New Times
The profiled Albertans include the following:
- Bill Gold
- Leonard Gaetz
- Sir James Lougheed
- Bob Edwards
- Henry Wise Wood
- Victoria Calihoo
- Henry Marshall Tory
- Richard Gavin Reid
- J. Percy Page
- Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance
- Kathleen Parlow
- Morris Shumiatcher
- Eric Harvie
- Jock Palmer
- Betty Mitchell
- Peggy Holmes
- Stastia Cross Carry
- Carl Anderson
- Vera Jacques Ireland
- Charlie Edgar
- Bert Sheppard
- Catherine Barclay
- Grant MacEwan
- George DuPre
- Hazel Braithwaite
- Mary Dover
- James H. Gray
- Kerry Wood
- Alice Murdoch Adams
- Arnold Platt
- Nicholas Morant
- Melvin “Fritz” Hanson
- Fred C. Mannix
- Violet Archer
- Harry Strom
- Jimmy “the Con” Carleton
- W.O. Mitchell
- Jean Hoare
- Father Pat O’Byrne
- Jack Gallagher
- William Morrow
- Betty O’Hanlon
- Webster Macdonald Sr.
- Stan Waters
- Clarence Horatius Miller
- Roloff Beny
- Bill Pratt
- Alexander Gray
- Bob Hatfield
- Glen Gorbous
- Johnny Bright
- Bob Johnson
- Walter Twinn
- Helen Collinson
- Grant Notley
- Sheldon Chumir
- David Walsh
- Allan Stein
Hear Brennan’s interview with Judy Hamill, host of CBC Radio One’s Daybreak Alberta:
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