Debrett's Illustrated Guide to The Canadian Establishment

London: Debrett's Peerage Limited, 1984. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. MANAGING EDITOR AND RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Robin Brass. PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHER: John Reeves. EDITOR: Greg Cable. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Rosemary Phelan. PHOTO ASSISTANT: Nancy Halpin. EDITORIAL RESEARCH AND WRITING STAFF: Doris Cowan, Gary Michael Dault, Freya Godard, Monica Hanula, Herb Hilderley, Doug Hunter, Janet Inksetter, dan Liebman, David Marshall, Kim Matheson, Peter Milroy, Catherine Munro, Geralyn Poynter, Paul Russell, Robert Stonehouse, Des Walsh. DESIGN: Brant Cowie/Artplus Ltd. INSIGNIA PAINTINGS: Peter Mossman. PRODUCTION: Steve Eby, Gaynor Fitzpatrick. PUBLISHER: Frederick D. Wardle. FOR DEBRETT: Sir Iain Moncrieffe of that Ilk, Robert Jarman. FRONT COVER: Parkwood, the McLaughlin Estate, Oshawa, Ontario. Photograph: Clive Webster. BACK COVER Dinner setting for a state banquet at Rideau Hall, official residence of the Governor General of Canada. Photograph: John Reeves. CONTENTS: Preface; THE POWER NETWORK Patrolling the Perfumed Stockades of Canada's Establishment; THE DYNASTIES The Bassetts, Batas, Birks, Bronfmans, Crosbies, Crosses, Eatons, Irvings, Lougheeds, McCains, Molson, Richardsons, Rileys, Rogers, Siftons, Sobeys, Southams, Thomson, Vaniers, Westons, and Woodwards; THE HONOURS LIST Marks of Honour by Carl Lochnan; Order of Canada; Order of Military Merit; Orders of chivalry; The Debrett's Six Hundred; Canadians with British Titles; Appendix: The Family Foundations; Index. COPYRIGHT: 1983 by Methuen Publications. SYNOPSIS: When a nation's elite is less than three generations removed from steerage, it can't afford too many pretensions. Peter C. Newman's wry opening observation sets the tone for this sometimes amusing, always informative portrait in text and photographs of Canada's trendsetters in business, politics, and the arts. Published in association with Debrett, who have chronicled British peerage since the 18th century, and based on Newman's research for his best-selling Canadian Establishment volumes, this book presents the first pictorial record of the people in Canada's past and present who have shaped this country into what it is--and isn't. A small army of consultants and editors has researched the country's twenty-one dynasties; they have pulled together their family trees, early photographs, and the often-forgotten events that draw the reader into the colourful lives and spectacular careers of the Establishment. A directory of the power-elites in business, the arts, and the professions includes brief and lively biographies. John Reeves, one of Canada's premier photographers, has crisscrossed the country--by invitation only--to catch these fast-moving Canadians at home and at play. Debrett's Illustrated Guide to the Canadian Establishment is a fresh and absorbing look at the complex of interlocking rings of decision-making power that affects all our lives--an engrossing visual compendium of the men and women who constitute "the self-effacing but powerful confederacy that holds the keys to the Canadian kingdom." Peter C. Newman has acted as general editor of this volume. The Canadian author's pioneering analysis of Canada's economic and political elite has been hailed by John Kenneth Galbraith as "the best guide anyone will ever encounter to Canada." His studies of the country's decision makers--The Canadian Establishment, Bronfman Dynasty, The Acquisitors and The Establishment Man--each beamed light into the very private corners where influence and authority in this northern society really reside. Born in Vienna, Newman emigrated to Canada with his family in 1940; he was educated at Upper Canada College and earned his Master's degree at the University of Toronto. After serving an apprenticeship with the Financial Post, he joined Maclean's, was named the magazine's Ottawa editor, and later joined the Toronto Star as its Ottawa columnist. His commentaries became a barometer for measuring the behind-the-scenes climate in political Ottawa and reached nearly two million readers. Appointed editor-in-chief of the Star in 1969, he left two years later to take the same position at the monthly Maclean's, which he transformed into a weekly newsmagazine. He is now writing a history of the Hudson's Bay Company and is continuing his probes of the country's networks of power brokers.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.