Biographies of the Famous, Infamous and 'Ordinary People'
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Posted by Kathleen Airdrie Oct 11, 2009 |
With these biographies, I want to show the people who invented, discovered, became famous or were listed as notorious. Also, I want to show something of the lives of people who accomplished great things, but were not necessarily acclaimed, or were forgotten. Many times when we read about historical events, we wonder about the people who were there, the 'ordinary people'.
Oldsmobile Cars Inventor Ransom E. Olds
Novelist Frances Brooke of Lincolnshire, England
Rose Fortune Was an Independent Woman
Winnipeg Journalist Ella Cora Hind
Tignish, Prince Edward Island Artist
Luther Burbank the Wizard of Horticulture
Punch Dickins Canadian Aviation Pioneer
Cabinet Maker William Brodie's Double Life
Pauline Johnson, Mohawk Writer
Rosemary Brown First Black Woman Legislator
Florence Lawrence -- First Movie Star
More links to biographies appear in my next blog post.