Top 50 Historically Significant Canadians

[JLM]

Wacky could have been on the list.

While Terry's accomplishments are profound I don't think they've changed our society. I'm no fan of Paul Watson but the environmental movement has impacted just about everything.

I think about the most newsworthy thing Watson did was sink some poor bastard's boat while he was trying to make a living.

 

[gopher]

I haven't read that particular one but have one of his older outlines. It cuts to the chase.

I checked but the book is not in our system. Hopefully, some day some one else will come up with a better book on the subject.

 

[Kreskin]

I checked but the book is not in our system. Hopefully, some day some one else will come up with a better book on the subject.

Pierre Berton has written many books on Canadian history. Pierre Berton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . That 1956 written one would surely be about John A MacDonald and how he an Canada's founders brought the Provinces together (1860-1870). . The one written about the National railway would also have some detail on that in all likelihood (1871-1881). It's been a long time since I read one of his but he's known to write a good book.

1954 The Golden Trail: The Story of the Klondike Rush
1954 The Royal Family
1955 The Golden Trail
1956 The Mysterious North: Encounters with the Canadian Frontier, 1947–1954
1956 Illustrated Heritage of Canada: The Beginning Years, 1860–1870
1957 Illustrated Heritage of Canada: The Seventies
1958 Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896–1899
1959 The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
1959 Just Add Water and Stir
1960 Adventures of a Columnist
1961 The Secret World of Og
1961 The New City : A Prejudiced View of Toronto
1962 Fast, Fast, Fast Relief
1963 The Big Sell : An Introduction to the Black Arts of Door-to Door Salesmanship & Other Techniques
1965 My War with the Twentieth Century
1965 The Comfortable Pew : A Critical look at Christianity and the Religious Establishment in the New Age
1966 The Cool, Crazy, Committed World of the Sixties
1967 "Voices from the Sixties"
1968 The Smug Minority
1970 The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871–1881
1972 The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881–1885
1972 The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific
1973 Drifting Home
1975 Hollywood’s Canada: The Americanization of the National Image
1976 My Country: The Remarkable Past
1977 The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama
1978 The Wild Frontier: More Tales from the Remarkable Past
1980 The Invasion of Canada: 1812–1813
1981 Flames Across the Border: 1813–1814
1982 Why we Act like Canadians: A Personal Exploration of our National Character
1983 The Klondike Quest
1984 The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896–1914
1985 Masquerade (as "Lisa Kroniuk")[19]
1985 Vimy
1987 Starting out: 1920–1947
1988 The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818–1909
1990 The Great Depression: 1929–1939
1992 Niagara: A History of the Falls
1994 The Battle of Lake Erie
1994 Winter
1995 My Times: Living With History, 1917–1995
1995 Attack on Montreal
1996 The Great Lakes
1996 Farewell to the Twentieth Century
1997 1967: The Last Good Year
1999 Worth Repeating: A Literary Resurrection
2000 Welcome To The 21st Century: More Absurdities From Our Time
2001 Marching as to War: Canada's Turbulent Years
2002 Cats I Have Known and Loved
2003 The Joy of Writing: A Guide for Writers Disguised as a Literary Memoir
2004 Prisoners of the North
2005 For the Love of History: Winners of the Pierre Berton Award Bring to Life Canada's Past

 

[gopher]

Thanx for that listing - evidently, a number of Berton's books are available in our library system.

I have two books on hold so that my reading list is full till at least Christmas - will request at least one or two of his books thereafter.

 

[BaalsTears]

Why isn't William Shatner on the list?

 

[B00Mer]

Why isn't William Shatner on the list?

...and Lorne Greene.

Lorne Greene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia