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The REV. William H. Lyon, D.D: An Address by the REV. Harold N. Brown, D.D., at the Dedication of the Memorial Tablet to Dr. Lyon, Sunday, November 1
Excerpt from The Rev. William H. Lyon, D.D: An Address by the Rev. Harold N. Brown, D.D., At the Dedication of the Memorial Tablet to Dr. Lyon, Sunday, November 11, 1917 Mr. Emerson once said to Mr. Alcott, so the first of these two sages of Concord once told me, that he (mr. Alcott) must go first out of the world. And when the latter queried why this should be, Mr. Emerson replied, Because I can then give a better account of you to the world than ever you could give of yourself. I will not pretend that this is any reason why I should be here, the earthly survivor, to speak of one whose work on earth is done. But I can speak of Dr. Lyon in terms that he was not likely to use in any estimate ...
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932
This second volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King (the first, written by R. MacG. Dawson, was published in 1958) covers the years 1924 to 1932. At the opening of this period, King was still an inexperienced and untried leader but the next few years were to test his qualities as he dealt with the concessions and compromises necessary in governing with an unstable majority and finally emerged the winner from the complicated chess games of parliamentary sessions. The Liberal success in the election of 1926 returned to office a Prime Minister with confidence in his own judgment and more inclined to hold firm to his own opinions against opposition from his colleagues or his party. Af...
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume III, 1932-1939
Aided by meticulous knowledge of the former Prime Minister's diary, and with characteristic conciseness and clarity, H. Blair Neatby has written the impressive and long-awaited third volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King. He carefully and judiciously untangles a complexity of issues in Canadian political history to produce definitive accounts of controversies that have engaged the attention of Canadian historians for years. Beginning the story in 1932, this volume treats the depression years when King was first in Opposition and then the years after 1935 when he was once again Prime Minister; it is a masterly analysis of how one of the most enigmatic figures in Canadian history ...
