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The Trail of the Conestoga

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Title:The Trail of the Conestoga
Author:
Dunham, Bertha Mabel   
Author:
King, William Lyon Mackenzie   
(4 of 4 for author by title)
The Secret of Heroism
Published:   1925
Publisher:Macmillan and Co. Ltd
Tags:Canada, Canadiana, history, non-fiction, Ontario, Waterloo
Description:

Novel about the early history of Waterloo, Ontario, with a preface by William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), tenth Prime Minister of Canada. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Dunham, Bertha Mabel

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Bertha Mabel Dunham (1881-1957) was a Canadian teacher, librarian, historian and author. Born in South Central Ontario, she moved to Kitchener where she remained for most of her life. She attended Toronto Normal School and returned to Kitchener to teach. She earned her BA at the University of Toronto in 1908 and trained as a librarian at McGill. She ran the Kitchener Public Library until her retirement in 1944. She wrote four novels and two books of non-fiction all based on the history of area. In 1948, she won the Book of the Year Medal from the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians for her historical novel for children, "Kristli's Trees". (Canada's Early Women Writers: Simon Fraser University)

Author Bio for King, William Lyon Mackenzie

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Canada's longest serving Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC (1874-1950) was the dominant politician in Canada from the early 1920s to the late 1940s. King kept an extensive series of diaries, but did not live to write his own biography. The leader of Canada during the Great Depression and World War Two King was considered somewhat eccentric. He did write one novel in 1906 "The Secret of Heroism: A Memoir of Henry Albert Harper. The rest of his writing were records of political speeches and political reports.

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