In Just Another Minute, bestselling author and 1996 winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, Marsha Boulton presents another volume of hugely readable, historically correct and wildly entertaining anecdotal glimpses into Canada's past.Did you know that: - A Canadian nurse named Florence Nightingale Graham transformed herself into cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden?- Canadian soldiers donated five bears to the London Zoo during the First World War, one of which became Winnie the Pooh?- Quebec's Mikall Sinnott became Hollywood director Max Sennett, creator of the Keystone Cops, and the artiste who brought pie tossing to the silver screen?From the first gold rush in the New World to Olympian George Seymour Lyon's gold medal in golf and Adelaide Hoodless's crusade for clean milk, Just Another Minute gives us another round of fascinating history guaranteed to surprise and inform Canadian history buffs of all ages.
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