The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister
by P. B. Waite
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Professor Waite has ably and intimately portrayed the private life of a late-Victorian politican: the sacrifice of home comforts, the loneliness of Ottawa, and the sense of public duty that drive Thomson, despite his natural inclinations, to persist in government service.Tags
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P.B. Waite is professor emeritus of history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, and one of the leading historians of the Confederation period. He is former president of the Canadian Historical Association and former chairman of the Humanities Research Council of Canada
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