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Tom Symons
Ralph . Ed(S): Heintzman
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Description for Tom Symons
hardcover. The professional biography of influential Canadian educator and statesman, Tom Symons. Editor(s): Heintzman, Ralph. Num Pages: 488 pages, 38 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BG; HBJK; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 958.
Tom Symons: A Canadian Life is a compelling portrait of one of Canada's pre-eminent educational and cultural statesmen of the twentieth century. An outstanding public figure, Symons was a leader in many areas of Canadian life, including as the founding president of Trent University, as a pioneer in Canadian and Aboriginal studies, as an architect of national unity and French-language education in Ontario, as a champion of human rights, and as the chief policy advisor to the federal Progressive Conservative party in the 1960s and 1970s. The volume's contributors are as remarkable as its subject. They include Madam Justice Rosalie ... Read more
Tom Symons: A Canadian Life is a compelling portrait of one of Canada's pre-eminent educational and cultural statesmen of the twentieth century. An outstanding public figure, Symons was a leader in many areas of Canadian life, including as the founding president of Trent University, as a pioneer in Canadian and Aboriginal studies, as an architect of national unity and French-language education in Ontario, as a champion of human rights, and as the chief policy advisor to the federal Progressive Conservative party in the 1960s and 1970s. The volume's contributors are as remarkable as its subject. They include Madam Justice Rosalie ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press Canada
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Ottawa, Canada
ISBN
9780776630434
SKU
V9780776630434
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About Ralph . Ed(S): Heintzman
Ralph Heintzman is an adjunct research professor of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto. In the 1960s, he served as assistant to Tom Symons. He is a former editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies and has served in many senior ... Read more
Reviews for Tom Symons
"Like all festschrifts, it is a collection of essays, but each essay addresses an aspect of one man's remarkable career. And because they are arranged more or less chronologically, 'they add up to a professional biography'" "When Symons' biography is written, this festschrift of sorts will serve as a convenient entry point into the larger social history of post-1945 Canada." ... Read more