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<p>Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canadas history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early politicians George Simpson and James Douglas; revolutionary Metis leader Louis Riel; writer Robertson Davies; and early movie star Mary Pickford.</p><b>Includes</b><ul><li><i>Louis Riel</i></li><li><i>James Wilson Morrice</i></li><li><i>Vilhjalmur Stefansson</i></li><li><i>Robertson Davies</i></li><li><i>James Douglas</i></li><li><i>William C. Van Horne</i></li><li><i>George Simpson</i></li><li><i>Tom Thomson</i></li><li><i>Simon Girty</i></li><li><i>Mary Pickford</i></li></ul>

This bundle of titles in the Quest Biography series entertainingly presents a variety of influential Canadian lives that have shaped the future of a nation and often of the world. In this volume we find politicians, an explorer, a frontiersman, a famous novelist, a revolutionary, a movie star, landscape painters, and a captain of industry.