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Alberta Originals
''Alberta Originals: Stories of Albertans Who Made a Difference'', originally published by Fifth House under , is a book of short biographical profiles written by Irish-Canadian author Brian Brennan. It's a sequel to Building a Province: 60 Alberta Lives, which Brennan published a year earlier."Royal reading list gives regal visitors sense of place," by Catherine Ford, Calgary Herald, July 7, 2011 Contents The profiled Albertans include the following: * The Famous Five: ** Henrietta Muir Edwards ** Louise McKinney ** Emily Murphy ** Irene Parlby ** Nellie McClung * Frank Oliver * The Big Four ** Patrick Burns ** George Lane ** Archibald J. McLean ** Alfred Ernest Cross * Sir Frederick Haultain * Henry Frank Lawrence * Bill Herron * Ho Lem * William Aberhart * Maude Riley * Martin Holdom * Monica Hopkins * William Irvine * Morris Cohen * Karl Clark * Elizabeth Sterling Haynes * Gladys McKelvie Egbert * Lizzie Rummel * Norma Piper Pocaterra * Annora Brown * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Brennan (author)
Brian Anthony Brennan (born October 4, 1943) is an Irish-Canadian author and historian who specializes in books about the colourful personalities of Western Canada's past. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he migrated to Canada in 1966 and has lived in Calgary, Alberta, since 1974. He spent 25 years as a staff writer with the ''Calgary Herald'' writing columns and feature stories. Brennan was part of an attempt by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada to organize a union local for the newsroom and negotiate a first contract with the ''Calgary Herald''. Before and during the eight-month strike by journalists in 1999 and 2000, Brennan was a member of the union's bargaining committee. When the strike ended in June 2000 with the dissolution of the union, he left the Herald to devote himself full-time to writing books. He was the first winner of the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award, presented in 2004 for his book ''Romancing the Rockies''. A longtime National Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Burns (businessman)
Patrick Burns (July 6, 1856 – February 24, 1937) was a Canadian rancher, meat packer, businessperson, senator, and philanthropist. A self-made man of wealth, he built one of the world's largest integrated meat-packing empires, P. Burns & Co., becoming one of the wealthiest Canadians of his time. He is honoured as one of the Big Four western cattle kings who started the Calgary Stampede in Alberta in 1912. He made his fortune in the meat industry, but ranching was his true passion. Burns' of cattle ranches covered so vast an area of Southern Alberta that he boasted about being able to travel from Cochrane to the US border without ever leaving his land. In 1931, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate as a representative for Alberta. On October 16, 2008, the ''Calgary Herald'' named Burns as Alberta's Greatest Citizen. Early life Patrick O'Byrne was born in Oshawa, Ontario, on July 6, 1856, the fourth of eleven children of Michael and Bridget O'Byrne. His parents had emi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Cohen (adventurer)
Morris (Moishe) Abraham Cohen (1887–1970), better known by the nickname Two-Gun Cohen and also known by his Chinese name Ma Kun (), was a Polish-born British and Canadian adventurer of Jewish origin who became aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army. Early years Cohen was born Abraham Mialczyn into an Orthodox Jewish family in Radzanów, Mława County, Radzanów, Poland on 3 August 1887. His father was Josef Leib Mialczyn, a wheelwright, and his mother was Sheindel Lipshitz. In 1889 the family emigrated to England and settled in East London, where Josef worked in a textile factory. They changed their family name to the easier-to-pronounce Cohen, and Abraham went by Morris and Moishe. Cohen loved the theaters, the streets, the markets, the foods and the boxing arenas of the British capital more than he did the Jews' Free School, and in April 1900 he was arrested as "a person suspected of attempting to pick pockets". A magistrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Irvine (Canadian Politician)
William Irvine (April 19, 1885 – October 26, 1962) was a Canadian politician, journalist, and clergyman. He served in the House of Commons of Canada on three occasions, as a representative of Labour, the United Farmers of Alberta, and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. During the 1920s, he was active in the Ginger Group of radical Members of Parliament (MPs). Early life Irvine was born at Gletness in Shetland, Scotland, one of twelve children in a working-class family. He became a Christian socialist in his youth, and worked as a Methodist lay preacher. He moved to Canada in 1907 after being recruited for ministerial work by James Woodsworth, the father of future CCF leader J. S. Woodsworth. Irvine was a follower of the social gospel, and rejected biblical literalism. He refused to sign the Articles of Faith when ordained as a Methodist minister, claiming that he accepted the ethical but not the supernatural aspects of Christian belief. He was nonetheless acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Hopkins
Monica may refer to: People *Monica (actress) (born 1987), Indian film actress * Monica (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) * Monica (singer) (born 1980), American R&B singer, songwriter, producer, and actress * Saint Monica, mother of Augustine Places * 833 Monica, a minor planet * Monica, Kentucky * Santa Monica, California Arts, entertainment, and media Fiction * ''Monica'' (2011 film), an Indian film * ''Monica'' (2022 film), an American-Italian film *Monica, a fictional country in '' Æon Flux'' *Monica, a fictional planet in David Weber's science fiction Honorverse Music * MONICA, a Scottish band featuring members of Win/ The Apples and Trembling Bells * "Monica" (song), a song by The Kinks from their album ''The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society'' (1968) *"Monica", a song by Dan Bern from his album ''Fifty Eggs'' *"Monica", a 1984 song by Kōji Kikkawa ** Leslie Cheung, covered into Cantonese in 1984 ** L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
