At Face Value

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At Face Value is written by Donald Harman Akenson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773562524 (ISBN 10) and 9780773562523 (ISBN 13).

In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John White arrived on the Canadian scene, was actually John's sister. Further, he suggests that John White can be best understood by recognizing that he was in fact Eliza!