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Biography & Autobiography Presidents & Heads Of State
David Lam
A Biography
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2011
- Category
- Presidents & Heads of State
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553656852
- Publish Date
- Jun 2011
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
Businessman, philanthropist, former lieutenant-governor, distinguished citizen and devoted gardener, David Lam is one of the most respected and best-loved figures in British Columbia public life. This biography tells his remarkable story.
This is a new release of the book published in September 1996.
About the author
Born in 1922, Reginald Roy was a professor emeritus at UVic's History Department when he wrote Sherwood Lett: His Life and Times, a biographical tribute to Lett, a former Chancellor of UBC who rose to the chief justiceship of B.C. As a military historian who served with the Cape Breton Highlanders from 1939 to 1945, Roy also published Ready for the Fray, Sinews of Steel, The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1919-1965, 1944: The Canadians in Normandy, Telegrams of the North West Rebellion (with Desmond Morton) and a history of the Vancouver Club.