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The Consummate Canadian

A Biography of Samuel Edward Weir, Q.C.

By: Mary Willan Mason

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The Consummate Canadian

A Biography of Samuel Edward Weir, Q.C.

By: Mary Willan Mason

Samuel Edward Weir Q.C. (1898-1981), a man both loved and reviled with scorn, was born in London, Ontario. Descended from pioneer stock, with roots in both Ireland and Germany, Samuel Weir possessed incisive wit, exceptional intelligence and a passionate zest for any subject that caught his eye. Over a period of sixty years he built an extraordinary collection of approximately one thousand works of outstanding art and sculpture. This extensively researched biography of a talented yet quixotic lawyer who contributed much to Canada's heritage begins in the early 19th century and covers well over a hundred years of our nation's growth, until his death at his home, River Brink, in Queenston, Ontario. Today, River Brink is the gallery in which The Weir Collection is exhibited and housed.

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1896219403

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A Biography of Samuel Edward Weir, Q.C.

By: Mary Willan Mason

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A Biography of Samuel Edward Weir, Q.C.

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The Hivernante

Marie Anne Lajimoniere, the White Mother of the West

By: Mary Willan Mason

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The Hivernante

Marie Anne Lajimoniere, the White Mother of the West

By: Mary Willan Mason

In the late 1700s in a village east of Trois-Rivieres, Lower Canada, young and high spirited Marie Anne Gaboury, born 1782, with no dowry, no marriage prospects, is despatched by her widowed mother to serve as assistant housekeeper in the priests home. On her way to what she sees as a lonely secluded life, she encounters sixteen-year-old Jean Baptiste Lajimoniere, eldest son of the areas wealthiest farmer having a swim. She gets a hearty playful splash and arrives at the presbytery, bedraggled and miserable. Eleven years later, Jean Baptiste comes home to farm after a few years of adventurous hunting out in what were known as the western deserts. Marie Annes sister contrives for the two to meet and she is entranced by his tales. They fall in love but two weeks after the wedding, Jean Baptiste decides he must return to the freedom of the west and take his adored bride with him, the first white woman to live as a semi-nomad on the prairies. The first of her eight children is born in a buffalo hide tent on January the 6th, 1807, the second prematurely on the open plains after a buffalo hunting mishap. A threat on her life, a brief kidnapping of her son, two offers to trade him for a horse, encounters with braves on the warpath, Jeans imprisonment in the midst of the fur wars, Marie Anne faces one crisis after another with courage and fortitude. The Hivernante shares the fascinating tale of the first white mother of the west and grandmother of the patriot, Louis Riel. Through hair-raising adventures, hope, faith and love of the land, Marie Anne and Jean Baptiste realize their dreams.

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246

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iUniverse

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1491752572

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9781491752579

Science and Health

With Key to the Scriptures

By: Mary Baker Eddy

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Science and Health

With Key to the Scriptures

By: Mary Baker Eddy

First published in 1875 and read by more than eight million people, this nondenominational book has a 119-year history of healing and inspiration. To attract a new audience, this time-honored message of healing has a powerful new cover, easy-to-read page layout, and word index. Named one of "75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World".

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187864100X

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The Hivernante

Marie Anne Lajimoniere, the White Mother of the West

By: Mary Willan Mason

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The Consummate Canadian

The Consummate Canadian

The Consummate Canadian

The Consummate Canadian

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Science and Health

Science and Health

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