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Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray (charlottegray.ca) is a historian whose latest book is The Promise of Canada: 150 Years—People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country.
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Arts & Culture / June 2018

The Future of Biography

July 13, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

Social media is breathing new life into an esteemed literary genre

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The Foundation for Canadian Success

April 22, 2017January 23, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

Recorded April 22, 2017 in the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown

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Arts & Culture

The Complicated Case of Pauline Johnson

March 8, 2017October 23, 2019 - by Charlotte Gray

The daughter of a Mohawk chief and an Englishwoman, Johnson championed Indigenous rights. But that may not have been the message her audiences took away

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Talking to the Dead

October 16, 2014October 16, 2019 - by Charlotte Gray

They cannot sue, and never interrupt

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Photograph by Tim Georgeson
Feature / November 2013

Prime Minister in Waiting

November 17, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

Can Thomas Mulcair finish the project Jack Layton started?

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Photograph by Nigel Dickson
Feature / January/February 2012

Reign Maker

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General, possesses impeccable credentials and old-fashioned charm. Plus he is the government’s secret weapon in restoring the power of the monarchy

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Feature / October 2010

Faded Hero

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

How Canada forgot—and then rediscovered—Sir Sam Steele

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