Mary Willan Mason: 2 books
The Consummate Canadian
A Biography of Samuel Weir Q.C.
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1990
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...
The Hivernante
Marie Anne Lajimoniere, the White Mother of the West
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
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...