Ferguson - Canadian History for Dummies

Canadian History For Dummies

by Will Ferguson

Canadian History For Dummies , 2nd Edition

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Ferguson, Will

Canadian history for dummies / by Will Ferguson. 2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13 978-0-470-83656-3

ISBN-10 0-470-83656-3

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About the Author

Will Ferguson has lived and worked in every region of Canada, from the Okanagan Valley of B.C. to the farmlands of rural Qubec, from Saskatoon to southern Ontario, from Manitoba to P.E.I.

He is the author of several bestselling books on Canadian history and culture, including Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw (winner of the 2005 Leacock Medal for Humour) and Bastards & Boneheads (a study in Canadian leadership styles). With his brother Ian, he wrote the wildly successful humour book How to Be a Canadian, which sold over 150,000 copies and won the Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

Wills debut novel Happiness (originally published under the title Generica ) won the 2002 Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. It has been published in 33 countries and 26 languages around the world.

Authors Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Robert Harris, Robert Hickey, Pamela Vokey, and Elizabeth McCurdy for their work on the 2nd edition of Canadian History For Dummies, as well as the many good people who helped produce and promote the original 2000 edition: Joan Whitman, Tom Best, Amy Black, Melanie Rutledge, Jennifer Smith, Donna Brown, Rebecca Conolly, Kim Herter, and Jamie Broadhurst.

I would also like to thank my agent, Carolyn Swayze, as well as Kirsten Olson, Executive Director of the Legal Archives of Alberta; historians Harry Sanders and Donald Smith in Calgary, AB; Mark Zuehlke in Victoria, BC; and Pam and Steve Stackhouse in Saint John, NB.

The following readers either wrote to me or provided feedback on the original version of Canadian History For Dummies , and suggested changes and/or corrections that have been incorporated into the 2nd edition: Raisa Deber at the University of Toronto; Michael Dorosh of Calgary, AB; Tom Wright of Riverview, NB; Stephen Jones of Chicago, IL; Richard Harnik of Brooklyn, NY; and John Stolarski of Kettering, UK.

Many thanks! Comments on Canadian History For Dummies, 2nd Edition can be sent to me via the publisher or at my Web site: www.willferguson.ca

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