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David Wilson on The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
What happens when a national biography doesn’t just celebrate—or condemn, but strives to understand? In this episode, I sit down with historian David A. Wilson to explore how the DCB is rethinking who gets included, how language is updated without “rewriting” the past, and why a birdseed magnate—James Nicholson—helped launch Canada’s most important biographical project.
In this episode, I sit down with historian David Wilson, General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian
Biography, to discuss the origins and history of this great institution that has been ongoing now for more
than seventy…
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