Capital Lives Volumn II (in stock)
©2010 Valerie Knowles
Author: Valerie Knowles
Published: 2010
all rights reserved
ISBN 978-0-9698795-1-0 (v. 2)
176 pages
Format 5½" x 8.5" inches
Soft Cover
Availability:
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This follow-up to Valerie Knowles first edition of Capital Lives profiles
another 32 well known Ottawa personalities including early settlers, such as
Braddish Billings (1783-1864) and Ottawa business woman Isabel Percival
(1903-1998). The book is an
important addition to Ottawa’s local history.
It features 1000 words profiles for the 16 persons the author
has chosen. It includes profiles
for the following people.
1. PHYSICIANS
Dr. Alexander Christie (1787-1843)
Dr. Maureen Roberts (1915-2004)
2. ENGINEER
Andrew George Latta McNaughton (1887-1966)
Chalmers Jack Mackenzie (1888-1984)
3. ENTREPRENEURS
Braddish Billings (1783-1864)
Thomas McKay (1792-1855)
Joseph Merrill Currier (1820-1884)
Moses Bilsky (1829-1923)
Rolla L. Crain (1865-194 7)
Isabel Percival (1903-1998)
4. PHILANTHROPISTS
Maria Thorburn (1835-1926)
Andrew Fleck (1848-1924)
Harry Stevenson Southam (1875-1954)
William Alastair Gamble (1911-1993)
5. CREATIVE ARTISTS
William Lett (1819-1892)
William James Topley (184 5-19 30)
Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
Agnes Mary Scott (Davis) (1863-1927)
Charles Bowman (1883-1978)
Henri Masson (1907-1996)
Judith Crawley (1914-1986)
6. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
Jean-Luc Pepin (1924-1995)
7. PUBLIC SERVANTS
George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901)
Otto Julius Klotz (1852-1923)
Oscar Douglas Skelton (1878-1941)
Isabella Preston (1881-1965)
Hoyes Lloyd (1888-1878)
Graham Towers (1897-197 5)
John A. Hopps (1919-1998)
8. MAYORS
Stanley Lewis (1888-1970)
9. NUNS
Elisabeth Bruyere (1818-1876)
Marie Thomas d'Aquin (1877-1963)