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The New Federation House Leadership Project A unique Une collection collection featuring unique sur les Canadian and leaders politiques world leaders ― canadiens et their legacies internationaux qui and impact on ont marqué history. l’histoire.

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The Prime Ministers of Canada Les Premiers Ministres du Canada From John A Macdonald to De John A Macdonald à Stephen Harper Stephen Harper The first in a series of books on Premiers d’une série d’ouvrages sur les leaders Canadian political leaders, The politiques canadiens édités en français et en Prime Ministers of Canada and Les anglais par la Maison nouvelle fédération, Premiers Ministres du Canada, were Les Premiers Ministres du Canada et The Prime published in 2002 and have sold Ministers of Canada ont été publiés en 2002 et over 10,000 copies across the vendus à plus de 10 000 exemplaires. country. A third edition has now Une troisième édition vient tout been published in 2011. juste de paraître en 2011. These hundred-page books Ces ouvrages, d’une centaine de pages feature original essays by chacun, contiennent des Canada's leading historians biographies inédites rédigées par des illustrated with exceptional historiens renommés et de splendides archival images. These texts illustrations d’archive. provide a rare insight into the lives Ils posent un éclairage nouveau sur la vie et and motivations of the country's les raisons qui ont motivé ces premiers leaders. These works serve ministres à entrer en politique. as models for subsequent Ces œuvres serviront de modèle titles in the series. pour les autres livres de cette série.

Now available Maintenant disponible

Native Leaders of Canada Les Chefs Autochtones du Canada

This collection of original Publiés respectivement en anglais et en biographies, published in English français, ces ouvrages constituent un and French, profiles Canadian recueil inédit de biographies des leaders aboriginal leaders whose autochtones canadiens dont les accomplishments made possible réalisations permirent à leurs peuples et the survival of their people and leurs cultures de survivre dans l’ère culture in the modern era. Written moderne. Rédigés par des spécialistes de by some of Canada’s most la question autochtone, ces ouvrages experienced native writers, sont magnifiquement illustrés de journalists, and specialists in photographies d’archive et Native Studies, these books are contemporaines. Ils constituent une superbly illustrated with archival œuvre unique qui raconte l’histoire and contemporary photographs. extraordinaire et parfois tragique des These unique volumes provide chefs autochtones depuis les débuts rare insights into the extraordinary de la Confédération canadienne à and sometimes tragic stories of nos jours. Un panel d’émérites Native leaders since Confederation. A conseillers autochtones a guidé ce panel of distinguished Native Advisors projet qui est également accompagné guided the publication of this original d’un guide pour enseignant et d’un work, which is accompanied by a web site Web sur lequel figurent plusieurs site which profiles many more autres biographies de chefs outstanding leaders. autochtones. Now available Maintenant disponible

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The World’s Great Political Leaders Beacons for Civilization

BOLIVAR LINCOLN GANDHI SADAT THATCHER MANDELA

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not A special committee of From antiquity respected international also animated with the love to the present of truth and virtue, no experts will establish selection criteria and matter whether he be a some prominent oversee the project. prince or one of the people. nominees Original biographies Jean de La Fontaine under consideration written by noted historians will be Cleopatra Besieged on all sides, our accompanied by relevant planet craves an Emperor Constantine photographs and enlightened and fresh The Prophet Mohammed illustrations. approach to leadership. Jeanne d’Arc History is rich with great An interactive web site leaders from several eras Catherine the Great will feature additional and many continents who Simon Bolivar profiles of leaders who have ignited the collective Abraham Lincoln left an indelible mark on society. imagination. Winston Churchill It is paramount that the Franklin D. Roosevelt The World’s Great Political Leaders should dynamic ideas and Charles de Gaulle achievements of these generate a lot of interest, great leaders be recorded Indira Gandhi discussion and analysis, and presented in a way to Golda Meir as we enter an era of inspire current and future The Dali Lama greater international involvement where past generations. Lester B. Pearson and current leaders are Too often great leaders Anwar Sadat subject to more scrutiny have been associated with John F. Kennedy and evaluation. conquests and military Martin Luther King, Jr. might. Our objective is to Margaret Thatcher This volume will be offer an innovative published in Mikhail Gorbachev perspective on what English and French and makes a truly great leader, Nelson Mandela may be translated into while in the process Deng Xiaoping other languages encapsulating a great deal as well. of the world’s history.

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The Governors General of Canada Les Gouverneurs généraux du Canada

STANLEY GREY MASSEY LÉGER SAUVÉ JEAN

The Governor General is the Le gouverneur général est le Queen’s representative in représentant de la reine au Canada. Viscount Monck Canada. Ils ont été vingt-huit à assumer cette responsabilité Twenty-eight Governors Lord Lisgar General have served this depuis les débuts de la Earl of Dufferin Confédération. Cette tradition country since Confederation. Duke of Argyll This tradition has a long puise ses origines dans le Marquess of Lansdowne Régime français et le système history going back to the French regime and British Lord Stanley britannique. colonial rule. Earl of Aberdeen En raison du caractère Earl of Minto Because the Governor symbolique rattaché à cette General’s role today has been Earl Grey fonction, certains médias et described as largely symbolic, Duke of Connaught critiques politiques ont parfois critics and the media have Duke of Devonshire minimisé l’influence exercée par les gouverneurs généraux. often downplayed its Lord Byng influence. But individually Pourtant, sur le plan individuel, Viscount Willingdon ces hommes et ces femmes ont the men and women holding Earl of Bessborough this office have inspired inspiré des générations de Lord Tweedsmuir generations of , Canadiens par delà leurs built bridges across regional Earl of Athlone différences régionales et and cultural barriers, and Viscount Alexander culturelles. Ce faisant, ils ont made national unity a fait de la promotion de l’unité canadienne une vocation personal crusade. In the Georges P. Vanier process they have nurtured personnelle, renforçant la cohésion nationale et les our way of life and the values Jules Léger it represents. valeurs qui la sous-entendent. Edward Schreyer This volume will capture the Cet ouvrage examinera les Jeanne Sauvé aspects politiques et la political and human Ramon John Hnatyshyn dimension of the public lives dimension humaine de leurs of the Governors General, Roméo LeBlanc vies publiques, les difficultés the challenges they faced, and Adrienne Clarkson qu’ils ont dû surmonter ainsi their defining moments while Michaëlle Jean que les moments phares de leurs mandats. in office. David Johnston

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The Chief Justices of the Leaders of Canada’s Legal System

RICHARDS STRONG ANGLIN TASCHEREAU LAMER LASKIN McLACHLIN

Created in 1875, the The Supreme court of Supreme Court of Canada Canada’s rulings have often became the court of last The Right met with critical acclaim resort and a final arbiter of Honourable not only in Canada but also legal disputes when the Chief Justices internationally. government of Louis St-

Laurent abolished the Sir appeals to the Privy Seventeen Chief Justices Council in London in 1949. Sir William Johnstone Ritchie have presided over the court since Confederation, Sir Samuel Henry Strong sixteen men and one Since then the Supreme Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau woman. This volume on Court of Canada has the Chief Justices of the Sir shaped the country’s Supreme Court will political, social and Sir examine their lives and economic landscape, career paths, the challenges Francis Alexander Anglin especially since the advent they faced, and some of the of the Canadian Charter of Sir Lyman Poore Duff historic decisions rendered Rights and Freedoms in on major public issues. 1982.

Patrick Kerwin Written by some of the “The Charter has made most knowledgeable Canada a better place” says John Robert Cartwright writers in the legal Patrick Monahan, the dean community, these of Osgoode Law School, Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux biographies, interspersed “It’s a fairer society. It's a with striking photos and society that treats illustrations, will be of individuals with greater Robert George interest to both jurists and concern and respect, and the general public alike. it’s a society that provides Beverley McLachlin for checks and balances on This volume will be the exercise of political published in English and power.” French.

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Les Premiers Ministres du Québec

CHAUVEAU MERCIER TASCHEREAU DUPLESSIS LESAGE LÉVESQUE

Les Premiers Ministres du Reconnus maintenant Québec constitue l’un des Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau comme nation, les projets majeurs de la série Gédéon Ouimet Québécois ont fait des d’ouvrages sur les leaders Charles-Eugène Boucher de gains prodigieux depuis la politiques canadiens Boucherville Révolution tranquille, bien publiés par la Maison que de nombreuses Henri-Gustave Joly de nouvelle fédération. réformes aient été déjà Lotbinière entreprises au cours des On compte trente et un Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau décennies précédentes. premiers ministres qui ont Joseph-Alfred Mousseau dirigé le Québec John Jones Ross Cet ouvrage relatera les depuis les débuts de la Louis-Olivier Taillon actions politiques Confédération, soit dix de Honoré Mercier marquantes de ces plus qu’au gouvernement premiers ministres, leurs canadien. Félix-Gabriel Marchand réalisations et l’héritage Ces chefs de Simon-Napoléon Parent qu’ils ont laissé. gouvernement ont dû Il sera composé de textes relever de nombreux défis Louis-Alexandre Taschereau rédigés par d’imminents d’ordre culturels et Joseph-Adélard Godbout historiens ainsi que de économiques pour faire Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis photographies et du Québec une société Paul Sauvé d’illustrations idoines. prospère en Amérique du Son format sera identique Nord, tout en préservant à celui des ouvrages sa langue et ses valeurs Daniel Johnson (père) distinctes. précédents, qui s’est révélé Jean-Jacques Bertrand fort populaire auprès des Aussi ont-ils écrit étudiants, des professeurs, quelques-unes des plus René Lévesque de la classe politique, des belles pages de son Pierre-Marc Johnson médias et du grand public. histoire. Daniel Johnson (fils) Cet ouvrage qui sera publié en français, pourrait le cas échéant, être suivi d’une version anglaise.

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The Premiers of Ontario

MACDONALD MOWAT HEPBURN FROST DAVIS HARRIS

Since Confederation, only J. S. Macdonald The book will explore twenty-four Premiers have had the achievements, the privilege of governing influence and legacy of Ontario. these leaders for both Arthur Hardy Ontario and Canada. Under their tutelage, Ontario George Ross grew from a sleepy colonial New Federation House, Sir outpost to an industrial power- a non-profit house. Sir William Hearst organization that Ernest C. Drury specializes in Their efforts resulted in the George Ferguson province becoming the corner- educational and political George Henry stone of Confederation, as well issues founded in 1988, as a cultural hub for the nation. will consult with Gordon Conant respected experts who Ontario’s success as one of the will guide the project. most prosperous and tolerant George Drew multicultural societies on the The biographies will be planet made it a magnet for Thomas Kennedy written by noted immigrants. historians and be accompanied by relevant Yet, these achievements were William Davis photographs and not without challenges for its illustrations. Premiers. Frank Miller This book will be Ontario, also home to Canada’s published in English Great Lakes, is now facing new initially and may be challenges as its Premiers tackle followed by a French water conservation and other version. environmental issues. Dalton McGuinty

This special series on leadership will also include volumes on the Premiers of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. These books will continue the successful format of The Prime Ministers of Canada which has enjoyed great success not only among students, academics, and politicians, but also the media, libraries and the general public.

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