Tom Symons : a Canadian life /
Tom Symons: A Canadian Life is a compelling portrait of one of Canada's pre-eminent educational and cultural statesmen of the twentieth century. An outstanding public figure, Symons was a leader in many areas of Canadian life, including as the founding president of Trent University, as a pionee...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ottawa [Ont.] :
University of Ottawa Press,
[2011]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Tom Symons: A Canadian Life is a compelling portrait of one of Canada's pre-eminent educational and cultural statesmen of the twentieth century. An outstanding public figure, Symons was a leader in many areas of Canadian life, including as the founding president of Trent University, as a pioneer in Canadian and Aboriginal studies, as an architect of national unity and French-language education in Ontario, as a champion of human rights, and as the chief policy advisor to the federal Progressive Conservative party in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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| Item Description: | Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic text (466 pages) :) : portrait, digital fil |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780776619569 077661956X |