Bill Davis: Nation Builder, and Not So Bland After All2016 Ontario Historical Society Donald Grant Creighton Award — Winner A National Post Bestseller, The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016, 2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted The first authorized biography of Bill Davis, the enigmatic Ontario premier who carried on a Tory dynasty, but was also a crucial Trudeau supporter. A biography of one of Ontario’s most important premiers, who, despite having been out of public life for more than thirty years, is remembered fondly by many as the father of the community college system, TVO, OISE, and was indispensable in repatriating the Canadian Constitution with an accompanying Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Before he became premier, Davis was perhaps the most important education minister in Ontario history, responsible for the creation of the community college system and TVOntario. As premier, he went on to lead Ontario through buoyant and recessionary economic times, leaving a legacy Ontarians continue to enjoy. Now 87, Davis still lives on Main Street in his beloved Brampton. |
Contents
20 | 344 |
21 | 360 |
III | 403 |
22 | 403 |
23 | 467 |
24 | 487 |
Appendix 1 | 514 |
Appendix 2 | 517 |
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Appendix 3 | 521 |
Appendix 4 | 527 |
Appendix 5 | 529 |
Appendix 6 | 531 |
Appendix 7 | 539 |
Appendix 8 | 551 |
Appendix 9 | 553 |
Appendix 10 | 554 |
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Dr Roberto Grosso Bursary | 558 |
Acknowledgements | 563 |
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