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Anderson Ruffin Abbott

Anderson Ruffin Abbott graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1861, and became the first Canadian of African descent to train as a physician. Abraham Lincoln appointed him one ...

Fresh Air

Compelling accounts of the people, issues, and events in the news.

La jointure du temps

By (author) Léonard Forest
Categories: Literary essays
Series: Essais et documents

Dans cette nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, l’auteur offre une réflexion lim­pide et approfondie sur le pays, l’art et l’Univers. Il étoffe ses propos de ses années d’expérience en ...

Canadian Culture

The surest way to the hearts of a Canadian audience is to inform them that their souls are to be identified with rock, rapids, wilderness and virgin (but exploitable) forest. This critical statement no ...

Nellie McClung

By (author) Carol L. Hancock
Categories: Biography: general

Nellie McClung. Her story was her faith. Her work, as politician, author and feminist reformer of the first half of this century, makes Nellie McClung: No Small Legacy a compelling and inspiring biography. ...