No comments about Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne.

No comments about Walking the Line: Travels Along the Canadian-American Border.

No comments about Women Who Made the News: Female Journalists in Canada, 1880-1945.

No comments about Timothy Eaton and the Rise of His Department Store.

1 comments about I Know That Name!: The People Behind Canada's Best Known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller.

1. Rebeccasreads recommends I KNOW THAT NAME! for every trivia buff, throne & den/game room, giving glimpses of how companies started, flourished, were gobbled up by bigger ones, or fended off takeovers to continue toward modernday prosperity.
   
   I KNOW THAT NAME! has lots of photos to illustrate this collection of histories about ordinary people, some Canadian born, others immigrants, with a few just passing through: all, however, made their mark on a nation & its culture -- from shaving cream to publishing houses, cough drops to body builders, distilleries & breweries to moving companies, film makers to musical instruments, toys to washing machines, hats to construction, glasses to razors, ladies' wear to fake meat products, advertising to flour, business forms to farm equipment, & on it goes.

No comments about Wesley Bourne: The Quintessential Canadian Anaesthetist : A Retrospective on the Foundaions of McGill Anesthesia (Fontanus Monograph Series, 10).

1 comments about Mount Pleasant Cemetery: An Illustrated Guide - Revised and Expanded.

1. no more or less...well,maybe a bit less..Given the fact that this cemetery is,alledgedly,"one of the oldest in north america"and a product of that golden age of victorian mourning and ostentation,this guidebook leaves MUCH to be desired..For starters there are few photographs of the monuments..Now,surely,there must be an abundance of fine mourning statues,weeping angels and the like at Mount pleasant,but this book has so few photographic representations of them as to lead the reader to believe that they do not exist there..What the book does have in abundance are photographs of some of the solid,if boring 19th century occupants of the cemetery,mainly grocers,printers,barristers,clerics and the like..Given that this cemetery catered to Toronto's elite this is perhaps to be expected,but the capsule accounts of thier lives,as written by Mike Filey,are about as interesting as a memorandum from the local Rotary club..Page after page of the same details,as if nearly all of the major players buried at Mount Pleasant conspired together to lead identical lives..page after page of how these people built a business,moved it from one location to another,and then died...Were there no military heroes,no great entertainers,no celebrated authors,no really INTERESTING people buried at Mount Pleasant?Indeed,if Filey wanted to be monotonous(as,apparently,he determined to be when laying out the outline which this guidebook would follow)he might just as well spent his time researching the various plumbers,housewives,bus-drivers,store-clerks,and so forth that are also buried at Mount Pleasant..at least most of the rest of us can relate to thier lives and,who knows,maybe a few life capsules of"ordinary"people might have broken up the tedium of reading about Toronto's 19th century business elite,whose only real difference from the masses,apparently,was the fact that they had more money and more leisure time..Filey's text proves that they did NOT lead more interesting lives...

No comments about The Life and Times of Texas Fosbery: The Cariboo and Beyond.

No comments about No Ordinary Academics: Economics and Political Science at the University of Saskatchewan,1910-1960 (Anthropological Horizons).

1 comments about I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories about the University of Alberta, 19062006 (University of Alberta Centennial Series).

1. Written by former University of Alberta student and senior administrator Ellen Schoeck, I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories About the University of Alberta 1906-2006 is a work of oral history chronicling the accomplishments and contributions of the University of Alberta over the past century. Collecting testimonies from generations of students, professors, and staffs who lived and worked at the University of Alberta, I Was There reads fluidly throughout its length of seven hundred pages, as it walks the reader through highlights, anecdotes, funny stories, and moments that would shape history. Notes, an index, and black-and-white vintage photography scattered through I Was There adds a visual touch to this soulful compendium and tribute that is surely the next best thing to having experienced the University of Alberta for oneself.