Written by George Cowley. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview The announcement that General Georges Vanier had been appointed the governor-general of Canada came at a meeting of the Canadian cabinet in Halifax at which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II presided. Nation-wide, cheers erupted as the former soldier and statesman […]
Written by George Grant. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview Like one of his best-selling novels, the life of John Buchan was full of adventure and achievement. He was one of the most accomplished men of the twentieth century: a successful barrister, a respected scholar, a popular journalist, a trusted […]
Written by Michael D. Clarke. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview Timothy Eaton is known from coast to coast in Canada for revolutionary merchandising and for building a retail empire by supplying the needs of city dwellers and country folk alike. Despite his fame, Eaton preferred to remain largely in […]
Written by Marguerite Van Die. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview Students spoke of him as an “evangelical mystic,” but during his long tenure from 1887 to 1915 as the chancellor of Canadian Methodism’s Victoria College, Nathanael Burwash managed to balance an intense piety with rcnowned skills as a negotiator […]
Written by Joseph Adamson. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview Northrop Frye, one of the country’s most eminent thinkers, devoted his life to a study of literature and culture that was deeply rooted in the Bible. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1912, the son of devout Methodists. Frye’s […]
Written by Randi Warne. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview Nellie McClung had a vision for Canada and for western Canada in particular. Calling it the Land of the Second Chance and the Land of the Fair Deal, McClung believed that the western prairie was a perfect place to build […]
Written by William Christian. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview George Monro Grant – Principal Grant of Queen’s College as he universally came to be known – was a celebrated churchman and university administrator who is best remembered for his travel narrative Ocean to Ocean. Grant’s father, James, left his […]
1898—1991 Written by Deborah Cowley. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission.OverviewPauline Vanier was born in Montreal in 1898. She was the only child of Charles Archer, a Quebec Superior Court judge, and his wife, Thérèse de Salaberry, whose seigneurial ancestors had come to Canada in 1730.“Faith, far from being outmoded or […]
Written by Kevin Kee. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview Hugh Thomas Crossley, partner in the well-known Methodist revival team of Crossley and Hunter, was born on an isolated homestead in King Township in present-day Ontario. When he was seventeen, a visit to a Methodist camp meeting changed his life. […]
Written by Darrel Reid. Copyright © 1998 by Michael D. Clarke, used with permission. Overview When A. B. Simpson died, a Christian Herald writer wrote: “His epitaph is written in the hearts of countless multitudes at home and abroad … no one in this age had done more effectual, self-denying service for Christ and His […]
