Building Bridges 9780773583085

A life devoted to social reconciliation and public understanding.

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Building Bridges
 9780773583085

Table of contents :
Cover
Footprints Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Early Years, 1923–1939
Growing up
Family antecedents
The society in which I lived
Baseball and other sports
Special Friendships
Hugh MacLennan
Charles Wassermann
The Arts
Music
The Theatre
Fine Arts
A Professional Career, 1940–1966
Learning to be a pediatrician
Starting a practice
Raising a family
Public Life, 1966–1979
Entering politics
The complicated path
Nomination
Vignettes
Jean Lesage
Robert Bourassa
René Lévesque
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Minister, 1970–1976
The Environment
The October Crisis
The Olympics
Leaving Politics
Dialogue
Christian-Jewish Relations
Behind the Iron Curtain
A Meeting with the Pope
Transitions, 1987–1991
Official Languages, 1991–1999
Commissioner
Don Getty across the Line of Scrimmage
Quebec
Speaking English
Reasonable Accommodation
Quebec and Canada
“Retirement,” 1999–
Looking Forward
Afterword
Acknowledgments

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