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INTRODUCING 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. 130 Albert Street, Suite 201 204, rue de l’Hôpital, pièce 201 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5G4 Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1V8 ( 613 ) 230-6017 ( 514 ) 848-9573 New Federation House is a La Maison nouvelle fédération non profit corporation and [email protected] est un organisme de a registered charity bienfaisance enregistré qui se dedicated to public www.newfederation.org consacre à l’étude des questions education on political, politiques, économiques et social and economic issues. © Copyright New Federation House 2011 sociales à des fins éducatives. VERSION 4 1 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 2 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. 3 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 Canadians, 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 Vincent Massey fait de la promotion de l’unité canadienne une vocation personal crusade. In the Georges P. Vanier process they have nurtured personnelle, renforçant la Roland Michener 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 4 The Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada 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 William Buell Richards 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 Charles Fitzpatrick shaped the country’s Supreme Court will political, social and Sir Louis Henry Davies 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. Thibaudeau Rinfret 1982. Patrick Kerwin Written by some of the “The Charter has made Robert Taschereau 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 Bora Laskin with striking photos