Canada
Subtitle: a portrait in letters, 1800-2000
By: [compiled by] Charlotte Gray.
Contributors: Gray, Charlotte, 1948-
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Toronto]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
Subjects: Canadian letters.; Canada -- History -- Sources.; Canada -- Social life and customs -- Sources.; Canada -- Biography.
Genres: Sources.; Biography.
Description: "In Canada: A Portrait in Letters, renowned biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray weaves together more than two hundred letters written by Canadians, both famous and ordinary. These priceless documents are accompanied by a visual narrative of one hundred illustrations, including maps, sketches, and photographs. Adding her own notes and commentary, Gray creates a captivating portrait of a country, rich in diversity and hope, once a backwater of the British Empire, that has matured to take its place among the world's cultural and economic leaders."--Pub. desc.
Notes: "Sources of letters": p. 503-517.
Includes index.