Books, Big Ideas, Q&As

Charlotte Gray dishes up a literary birthday gift for Canada’s 150th

Award-winning author Charlotte Gray talks about her latest book, The Promise of Canada: 150 Years—People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country.

Charlotte Gray, at her family cottage on Newboro Lake in Rideau Lakes, Ont. 'Generally, Canadians are outliers on any global scale. We are not turning against immigrants. We are relatively optimistic and happy. We trust government, compared to residents of most other OECD countries.' Photograph courtesy by Mark Raynes Roberts

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

June 26, 2017

OTTAWA—For Charlotte Gray, Canada was shaped by ideas from individuals that led to an ongoing national conversation about what it means to be Canadian. In The Promise of Canada, Ms. Gray’s latest and 10th book chronicling Canadian history published last October, she takes a ...

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