Founders and guardians

Summary: In the pages of this elegant book, the Fathers of Confederation, Governors General and Prime Ministers of Canada are brought vividly to life in Irma Coucill's evocative drawings and in the accompanying text. The Fathers who came together at the conferences at Charlottetown, Quebec City and London to hammer out the constitutional terms that became the British North America Act deserve to be revered as the true Founders of Canada. Although they were known affectionately as the "Fathers of Confederation," very few people when pressed can name more than a handful of them. Here we can now appreciate these men, their lives and contribution to this great country. Other men since 1867 have contributed greatly to the development and nurturing of this country. Our leaders have built well on the foundations laid down by the Fathers. Our Governors General and Prime Minister have indeed been Guardians of Canada. Irma Coucill's portraits of these men bring back Canada's past with an immediacy which dry history textbooks cannot provide. This beauitful book is an excellent reference and an authoritavtive picture of our past by one of Canada's leading portrait artists. (From book cover).