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London Eh to Zed

101 Discoveries for Canadian Visitors to London

by (author) Christopher Walters

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
May 2015
Category
Great Britain, General, Hikes & Walks
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459729889
    Publish Date
    May 2015
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781459729865
    Publish Date
    May 2015
    List Price
    $24.99

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Discover London — and Canada — in one guidebook!
Thousands of Canadians visit London, England, every year. But what their popular guidebooks always fail to mention are the over one hundred objects, monuments, and locations in the city associated with their own home and native land.
Take for example the statue of half-mad General Charles Gordon standing beside the River Thames. His capture by rebels set in motion a dramatic rescue attempt that became Canada's first overseas military mission. Then there's the world's most famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Do Canadians know she marched on syphilis in Canada after winning the vote for women in Britain? Or that a cross-eyed doctor from McGill University in Montreal became London's most notorious serial killer after Jack the Ripper?
London Eh to Zed is a light-hearted and entertaining walking guide especially for Canadians. Exploring seven neighbourhoods in London, it uncovers 101 fun discoveries about our history, character, passions, and foibles. Along streets in St. James's, Greenwich, and elsewhere, readers will meet men and women like the doomed adventurer Sir John Franklin, the un-amused Queen Victoria, and the tennis-loving but luckless Prince Rupert, first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, who never collected any HBC Rewards.

About the author

Christopher Walters is a graduate of Cambridge University and spent 10 years in London working as a tour guide, running a newspaper for expats called Canadian Content, and as a public affairs officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat. He now divides his time between Ottawa and Delta, Ontario.

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