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CHARLOTTE GRAY
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Canadian author, professor and historian Charlotte Gray uses her expertise at making history exciting to present an enthusiastic case for her Top Ten nominee, Sir John A. Macdonald, on Wednesday, October 27 at 8 p.m. (8:30NT) on CBC Television.
Gray was born in England and came to Canada in 1979. Before becoming a full-time author, she wrote regularly for many Canadian magazines including Saturday Night, where she had a monthly column on national politics for eight years. She appears regularly as a political and historical expert on television and radio current affairs panels.
Her latest book, The Museum Called Canada, just hit bookstores in October 2004. Her many other award-winning non-fiction books include Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King; Canada, A Portrait in Letters 1800-2000; Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwak; and Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill (which was made into a two-hour documentary for CBC's The Canadian Experience series in 2004).
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A graduate of Oxford University, Gray completed post-graduate work at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Vincent University in Nova Scotia. She is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, and in 2003 was awarded the Pierre Berton Prize for distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history. She was recently named chair of the Advisory Committee on the new Canadian History Centre, scheduled to occupy the old train station in Ottawa.
Watch Charlotte Gray make a compelling case for her Greatest Canadian nominee on Wednesday, October 27 at 8 p.m. on CBC Television (8:30 NT).
Encore presentations on CBC Newsworld: Thursday, October 28 at 8 p.m. & 11 p.m. ET Saturday, October 30 at 8 p.m. ET.
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Charolotte Gray makes a case for Greatest Canadian Sir John A. Macdonald. Click the play button to start video. (35 seconds) 
