Alberta Originals

Alberta Originals: Stories of Albertans Who Made a Difference, originally published by Fifth House under ISBN 1-894004-76-0, is a book of short biographical profiles written by Irish-Canadian author Brian Brennan.[1] It's a sequel to Building a Province: 60 Alberta Lives, which Brennan published a year earlier.[2][3][4][5][6]

Alberta Originals: Stories of Albertans Who Made a Difference
First edition
AuthorBrian Brennan
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiography, Canadian history
PublisherFifth House
Publication date
2001
Media typepaperback
Pages216
ISBN978-1894004763
OCLC47823514

Contents

The profiled Albertans include the following:

gollark: I think the "random facts about taxes and whatever" life skills should be learned independently and the vague general stuff like "working in teams" would be best learned through actually doing it seriously.
gollark: I would of course replace the English lesson badness with bringing arbitrary books in to read yourself.
gollark: School but instead of reading random poems you memorise 'life skills' would be quite ae ae ae, as they say.
gollark: If I were to redesign school, it would be much less regimented (you would not be grouped by year etc.), more flexible (an actually sane schedule and more/earlier choice of subjects), and focus on more general skills (not overly specific reading of books, or learning procedures for specific maths things, or that sort of thing). Additionally, more project-based work and more group stuff.
gollark: Those are specific uses of some of those things, yes. Which is why those are important. Although programming isn't intensely mathy and interest is trivial.

References
  1. Canadian Book Review Annual 2001 http://www.cbraonline.com/member/search/index.php?action=details&page=0&sort_col=TITLE&sort_dir=ASC&book_id=7096
  2. "Alberta history for short attention spans," by Janice Paskey, Calgary Herald, Jan. 5, 2002
  3. "Under the influence: Alberta celebrates its Originals" by Paula E. Kirman, Prairie Books Now, Spring 2002, page 7
  4. "A warts-and-all look at Alberta's builders," by Allan Shute, Edmonton Journal, December 23, 2001, page D12
  5. "Make history with books this Christmas," by David Bly, Calgary Herald, Nov. 30, 2001
  6. "Royal reading list gives regal visitors sense of place," by Catherine Ford, Calgary Herald, July 7, 2011
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