I Know That Name!: The People Behind Canada's Best Known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller - Softcover

Ray, Randy; Kearney, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550024078 ISBN 13: 9781550024074

Publisher: Dundurn Press, 2002

Synopsis

Every day Canadians buy groceries at Sobey’s, develop film at Black’s, or grab a coffee at Tim Horton’s without giving it a second thought. These brands are in our lives and in the public eye. We’re familiar with the names, but what do we really know about the people who lie behind them? I Know That Name! will answer these questions for you. It’s full of fun facts, intriguing trivia, and engrossing explorations of more than one hundred Canadian men and women who beat the odds to become household names, including Timothy Eaton, Laura Secord, and J.L. Kraft.

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About the Authors

Randy Ray is a freelance writer, author and publicist. He worked as a reporter with The London Free Press for 13 years, including three years as the newspaper's Parliament Hill correspondent. He lives in Ottawa.

Mark Kearney lives in London and has worked as a journalist for almost twenty-five years. He has a journalism degree from the University of Western Ontario.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550024078
• ISBN 13: 9781550024074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312