Sir John George Bourinot, Victorian Canadian

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Sir John George Bourinot, Victorian Canadian is written by Margaret Banks and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 077356926X (ISBN 10) and 9780773569263 (ISBN 13).

As clerk of the House of Commons, Bourinot advised the speaker and other members of the house on parliamentary procedure; he also wrote the standard Canadian work on the subject. A founding member of the Royal Society of Canada, he played a leading role during the Society's first twenty years. Ahead of his time in writing intellectual history, Bourinot was also an early supporter of higher education for women. He was a man of contrasts, an early Canadian nationalist as well as an imperialist. In spite of the constitutional changes of 1982, there is still much in Bourinot's writing that is relevant today.