Canadian Who's Who 2004. Volume XXXIX

This authoritative work documents the achievements of Canadians from a wide variety of backgrounds and occupations. For many older people in the UK Canada has always appeared rather a lacklustre place, characterised by serious minded, hard working citizens; it has never, like Australia, had to struggle against the reputation of a land of boorish male beer swillers and bizarrely dotty housewives, as portrayed so hilariously by Barry Humphreys. The preface is a model of clarity and brevity in its coverage both of the publishing history of this work since its first publication in 1910 and of the method of selecting...