D.M. LeBourdais | |
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Born | 1887 Clinton, British Columbia, Canada |
Died | November 8, 1964 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | (aged 77)
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 20th century |
Genre | History, non-fiction |
Subject | Economics |
Spouse |
Donat Marc LeBourdais (1887 - November 8, 1964) was a Canadian non-fiction writer and political activist. He wrote eight books during his lifetime, including six on Canada's economic history, a financial investment guide and a biography of explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. [1]
Born in Clinton, British Columbia and raised in Barkerville, he worked for the Yukon Telegraph Service before moving to Ottawa in 1919. [1] He founded the shortlived journal Canadian Nation, before joining a press syndicate to report on Stefansson's expedition to Wrangel Island. [1] He moved to Toronto in 1926, and began to write for periodicals including the Canadian Geographical Journal, Maclean's, Empire Review, Saturday Night and The Beaver. [2] During World War II, he was also employed as an administrator with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. [1]
As an activist he was the founding executive secretary of the National Railway League, an organization formed to defend public ownership of the Canadian National Railway, [3] and served on the boards of the National Committee on Mental Hygiene and the Mental Patients Welfare Association. [4] He ran for election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1935 federal election as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in the electoral district of High Park, but lost to Alexander James Anderson. [5]
He married journalist Isabel LeBourdais in 1942. Isabel was noted for her 1966 book The Trial of Steven Truscott. [6] They raised four children. Their grandchildren include Mark LeBourdais, a musician who was associated with the band King Apparatus in the 1990s.
D.M. LeBourdais | |
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Born | 1887 Clinton, British Columbia, Canada |
Died | November 8, 1964 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | (aged 77)
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 20th century |
Genre | History, non-fiction |
Subject | Economics |
Spouse |
Donat Marc LeBourdais (1887 - November 8, 1964) was a Canadian non-fiction writer and political activist. He wrote eight books during his lifetime, including six on Canada's economic history, a financial investment guide and a biography of explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. [1]
Born in Clinton, British Columbia and raised in Barkerville, he worked for the Yukon Telegraph Service before moving to Ottawa in 1919. [1] He founded the shortlived journal Canadian Nation, before joining a press syndicate to report on Stefansson's expedition to Wrangel Island. [1] He moved to Toronto in 1926, and began to write for periodicals including the Canadian Geographical Journal, Maclean's, Empire Review, Saturday Night and The Beaver. [2] During World War II, he was also employed as an administrator with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. [1]
As an activist he was the founding executive secretary of the National Railway League, an organization formed to defend public ownership of the Canadian National Railway, [3] and served on the boards of the National Committee on Mental Hygiene and the Mental Patients Welfare Association. [4] He ran for election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1935 federal election as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in the electoral district of High Park, but lost to Alexander James Anderson. [5]
He married journalist Isabel LeBourdais in 1942. Isabel was noted for her 1966 book The Trial of Steven Truscott. [6] They raised four children. Their grandchildren include Mark LeBourdais, a musician who was associated with the band King Apparatus in the 1990s.