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Capital Lives Vol. II:
Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities
Capital Lives
Capital Lives Vol II: Profiles of 32 Leading Ottawa Personalities is available from bookshops and museums in the Ottawa area and from the author. Contact.
Physicians Creative Artists
Dr. Alexander Christie (1787-1843) William Lett (1819-1892)
Dr. Maureen Roberts (1915-2004) William James Topley (1845-1930)
Engineers Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
Andrew George Latta McNaughton (1887-1966) Agnes Mary Scott (Davis) (1863-1927)
  Chalmers Jack Mackenzie (1888-1984)   Charles Bowman (1883-1978)
Entrepreneurs Henri Masson (1907-1996)
Braddish Billings (1783-1864) Judith Crawley (1914-1986)
Thomas McKay (1792-1855) Members of Parliament
  Joseph Merrill Currier (1820-1884) Jean-Luc Pepin (1924-1995)
Moses Bilsky (1829-1923) Public Servants
Rolla L. Crain (1865-1947) George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901)
Isabel Percival (1903-1998) Otto Julius Klotz (1852-1923)
Philanthropists Oscar Douglas Skelton (1878-1941)
Maria Thorburn (1835-1926) Isabella Preston (1881-1965)
Andrew Fleck (1848-1924) Hoyes Lloyd (1888-1978)
Harry Stevenson Southam (1875-1954) Graham Towers (1897-1975)
William Alastair Gamble (1911-1993) John A. Hopps (1919-1998)
Nuns Mayors
Élisabeth Bruyère (1818-1876)   Stanley Lewis (1888-1970)
Marie Thomas d'Aquin (1877-1963)  
This follow-up to Capital Lives contains thirty-two new profiles of well-known Canadians from Ottawa's past, all of which have appeared in the author's Forever Young column since the publication of the first volume in 2005.
Valerie Knowles Canadian Writer
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