Author: John Ferguson SnellPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Sir William Macdonald and His Kin
Author: John Ferguson SnellSir William C. Macdonald
Author: William FongPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773560432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Sir William Macdonald (1831-1917) is the father of the Canadian tobacco industry and one of the country's foremost educational philanthropists. His contributions to McGill University transformed it into one of the world's foremost research and teaching institutions. William Fong's biography places Macdonald's life in its historical context, painting a vivid portrait of Victorian Canada." "Born into a prominent Scottish family on Prince Edward Island, Macdonald rejected his Catholic upbringing and left home when he was eighteen. After three years in Boston as a bookkeeper he headed to Montreal and began to work as a commission agent. By 1868 Macdonald had become the leading manufacturer of chewing tobacco in Canada, and by 1885 he may have been the richest person in the country." "Macdonald turned to philanthropy when he was in his fifties; his endowments to institutions from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia made professionalism and practical education central to Canadian life. Fong describes in particular how McGill University evolved, largely through Macdonald's financial contributions, from an impoverished institution into an intellectual powerhouse. Most famously, he financed the research that led to Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize and to the start of the atomic age. Sir William Macdonald offers the first detailed look at the development of engineering, physics, and law at McGill."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Author: William Stewart WallacePublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Sir William Macdonald
Author: Stanley Brice FrostPublisher:
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Category : Philanthropists
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland
Author: Bernard BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 2518
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