Working the deadbeat
Subtitle: 50 lives that changed Canada
By: Sandra Martin ; foreword by William Thorsell
Publisher: Anansi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781770894488; 9780887842467
Subjects: Canada; History; Biographies; Histoire; Biography; Beruhmte Personlichkeit
Description: "Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada's famous, infamous, and unsung heroes in this unique collection of obituaries of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Here are Canadian icons such as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, social activist June Callwood, and urban theorist Jane Jacobs. Here are builders such as feminist and editor Doris Anderson, and businessman and famed art collector Ken Thomson. Here are our rogues, rascals, and romantics; our service men and women; and here are those private citizens whose lives have had an undeniable public impact. Finally, Martin interweaves these elegant and eloquent biographies with the autobiography of the obit writer, offering an exclusive and intimate view of life on the dead beat."--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 417-426.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Icons: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) ; Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) ; Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) ; Pierre Berton (1920-2004) ; Maurice "The Rocket" Richard (1921-2000) ; June Callwood (1924-2007) ; Arthur Erickson (1924-2009) ; Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) ; Maureen Forrester (1930-2010) ; Mordecai Richler (1931-2001).; title: Builders: Frank Calder (1915-2006) ; Duff Roblin (1917-2010) and Louis Robichaud (1925-2005) ; J.M.S. Careless (1919-2009) ; James Houston (1921-2005) and Kananginak Pootoogook (1935-2010) ; Celia Franca (1921-2007) ; Ken Thomson (1923-2006) ; Bertha Wilson (1923-2007) ; Robert Salter (1924-2010).; title: Rogues, Rascals, and Romantics: Irving Layton (1912-2006) ; Gordon Lunan (1914-2005) ; Scott Symons (1933-2009) ; Paul Brodie (1934-2007) ; Jackie Burroughs (1939-2010) ; Denny Doherty (1940-2007) ; Robert Burns (1942-2005) ; Paddy Mitchell (1942-2007) ; Chris Haney (1950-2010) ; Lindalee Tracey (1957-2006).; title: Private Lives, Public Impact: Ralph Lung Kee Lee (1900-2007) ; Mabel Grosvenor (1905-2006) ; Dora de Pedery-Hunt (1913-2008) ; Ed Mirvish (1914-2007) ; Simon Reisman (1919-2008) ; Doris Anderson (1921-2007) ; Jane Rule (1931-2007) ; Ted Rogers (1933-2008) ; Dorothy Joudrie (1935-2002) ; Peter Jennings (1938-2005).; title: Service: Helen Allen (1907-2006) ; Lyle Creelman (1908-2007) ; Israel Halperin (1911-2007) ; Ernest Alvia ("Smoky") Smith (1914-2005) ; Kay Gimpel (1914-2009) ; John Weir (1919-2009) ; Lucien Saumur (1921-2007) and Glen How (1919-2008) ; Rudolf Vrba (1924-2006) ; Anna Maria de Souza (1941?-2007) ; Donald Marshall (1953-2009).