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Author Fawkes, Marion Elizabeth Marten, 1917-

Title In search of my father / Marion Elizabeth Marten Fawkes.

Publication Info. Toronto : Natural Heritage/Natural History, [1994]
©1994

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Description 1 online resource (109 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface; SECTION ONE: The Discovery of the Missing Links; SECTION TWO: The Meeting of the Old World and the New; SECTION THREE: Newfoundland Enters the Picture; SECTION FOUR: The Years That Were All Too Few; Notes; Index of Names.
Summary How did Florence Nightingale and Sir Alexander Mackenzie become part of the same family history? And how does Captain Booty Graves fit into the picture? Who was the well-respected doctor in London, Ontario, son of a Northwest partner and Metis mother, who married a grandniece of a British aristocrat? Who was the first Newfoundlander, the grandson of a merchant seaman, to become a member of the federal government?This is very much a Canadian story. What begins as research, by the daughter he would never see, into the life of a Boer War veteran who died in World War I expands to touch on many si.
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Subject Marten, Charles McKenzie, 1883-1918 -- Family.
Martin family.
Martin family.
Marten, Charles McKenzie, 1883-1918 -- Famille.
Martin (Famille)
Canada -- Genealogy.
Canada.
Genre/Form Genealogy.
Subject Scottish Canadians -- Genealogy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Family histories.
Family histories.
Other Form: Print version: Fawkes, Marion Elizabeth Marten, 1917- In search of my father. Toronto : Natural Heritage/Natural History, ©1994 0920474985 9780920474983 (DLC) 95185487 (OCoLC)30973360
ISBN 9781554881994 (electronic book)
1554881994 (electronic book)
9781459714915 (electronic book)
1459714911 (electronic book)
0920474985
9780920474983