Author: Jan E. IrvingPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Irving Family Tree
Author: Jan E. IrvingHistory of the Irving Family of Delaware
Author: Irving vs. Irving
Author: Jacques PoitrasPublisher: Penguin Canada
ISBN: 0143193023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
They are Canada’s third wealthiest family, the fifth-largest private landowner in the U.S.A. They have a monopoly on New Brunswick’s English-language print media and billions of dollars in offshore accounts. They are the Irvings. And they have always placed a premium on discretion and family unity. They built their empire —which includes Canada’s largest refinery, soon to be linked by pipeline to Alberta’s oil fields—by remaining private. Irving vs Irving tells the story of how these ambitious, often ruthless entrepreneurs came to dominate the economic and political affairs of Atlantic Canada, and how they learned to love the property that perplexed them most: their media monopoly. The Irvings’ control of all of New Brunswick’s daily newspapers often allowed the family’s business pursuits to escape journalistic scrutiny. Readers frequently wondered what wasn’t in the newspaper, such as the Irving’s lobbying for their logging interests and the sinking of their tanker loaded with PCBs. In Irving vs Irving, veteran reporter Jacques Poitras uses the empire’s media holdings to examine previously untold episodes of this family epic from patriarch K.C. Irving’s manipulation of his mother’s affections to a Shakespearean confrontation between generations.
Irving House, a Family History
Author: Archie MillerPublisher: New Westminster, B.C. : Board of Trustees, Irving House Historic Centre
ISBN: 9780889258716
Category : New Westminster (B.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A genealogy and a history of the descendants of William Irving born 3 Mar 1816 near Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. In June 1849 he arrived in Portland, Oregon. He married 27 Sep 1851 Elizabeth Jane Dixon in Portland. They moved to Victoria, Canada in 1859. In 1864 they moved to New Westminster, Canada.
The Gospel of Trees
Author: Apricot IrvingPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451690479
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In an “eye-opening memoir” (People) “as beautiful as it is discomfiting” (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti. Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary’s daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who hiked alone into the deforested hills to preach the gospel of trees. Her mother and sisters spent their days in the confines of the hospital compound they called home. As a child, this felt like paradise to Irving; as a teenager, it became a prison. Outside of the walls of the missionary enclave, Haiti was a tumult of bugle-call bus horns and bicycles that jangled over hard-packed dirt, road blocks and burning tires triggered by political upheaval, the clatter of rain across tin roofs, and the swell of voices running ahead of the storm. Poignant and explosive, Irving weaves a portrait of a missionary family that is unflinchingly honest: her father’s unswerving commitment to his mission, her mother’s misgivings about his loyalty, the brutal history of colonization. Drawing from research, interviews, and journals—her parents’ as well as her own—this memoir in many voices evokes a fractured family finding their way to kindness through honesty. Told against the backdrop of Haiti’s long history of intervention, it grapples with the complicated legacy of those who wish to improve the world, while bearing witness to the defiant beauty of an undefeated country. A lyrical meditation on trees and why they matter, loss and privilege, love and failure. The Gospel of Trees is a “lush, emotional debut...A beautiful memoir that shows how a family altered by its own ambitious philanthropy might ultimately find hope in their faith and love for each other, and for Haiti.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The Norman Family Tree
Author: Dora Norman CobbPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Hiram Kindred Norman (1828-1868) was born in Hardeman Co., Tennessee and married Jannetta Jones in 1845. They settled in Yell Co., Arkansas.
The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide
Author: Amanda EppersonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440354170
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Discover your Scottish roots! You take the high road, and I'll take the low--and your family tree will be in Scotland before you know it. This book will help you uncover your Scottish heritage, from identifying your immigrant ancestor to tracking down records in the old country. With help from Scottish genealogy expert Amanda Epperson, you'll learn about church records, civil registrations, censuses, and more, plus how to find them in online databases and in archives. Inside, you'll find: • Basic information on how to start family history research, including identifying and tracing immigrant ancestors • Step-by-steps for finding and using records from both the United States and Scotland • Crash-course guides to Scottish history, geography, surnames, and naming conventions Whether your ancestors hail from the Highlands or the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, this book will help you grow your family tree in Scotland.
The Family Tree
Author: Karen BrananPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476717192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912--written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them.
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Author: Washington Irving