D. M. LeBourdais

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D.M. LeBourdais
Born1887
Clinton, British Columbia, Canada
DiedNovember 8, 1964(1964-11-08) (aged 77)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationWriter
Nationality Canadian
Period20th century
GenreHistory, non-fiction
SubjectEconomics
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(m. 1942⁠–⁠1964)​

Donat Marc LeBourdais (1887 - November 8, 1964) was a Canadian non-fiction writer and political activist. He wrote eight books during his lifetime, including six on Canada's economic history, a financial investment guide and a biography of explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. [1]

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Born in Clinton, British Columbia and raised in Barkerville, he worked for the Yukon Telegraph Service before moving to Ottawa in 1919. [1] He founded the shortlived journal Canadian Nation, before joining a press syndicate to report on Stefansson's expedition to Wrangel Island. [1] He moved to Toronto in 1926, and began to write for periodicals including the Canadian Geographical Journal , Maclean's , Empire Review, Saturday Night and The Beaver . [2] During World War II, he was also employed as an administrator with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. [1]

As an activist he was the founding executive secretary of the National Railway League, an organization formed to defend public ownership of the Canadian National Railway, [3] and served on the boards of the National Committee on Mental Hygiene and the Mental Patients Welfare Association. [4] He ran for election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1935 federal election as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate in the electoral district of High Park, but lost to Alexander James Anderson. [5]

He married journalist Isabel LeBourdais in 1942. Isabel was noted for her 1966 book The Trial of Steven Truscott . [6] They raised four children. Their grandchildren include Mark LeBourdais, a musician who was associated with the band King Apparatus in the 1990s.

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "D. M. LeBourdais: Explorer's Friend Author of 8 Books". The Globe and Mail . November 9, 1964. p. 4.
  2. ↑ "Canada An Unfinished Country". Swan Valley Star and Times, May 17, 1962.
  3. ↑ "Proposed League Pledges Defense Of C.N.R. System: New Organization Will Answer Hostile and Unfavorable Attacks on Publicly Owned Railways". The Globe and Mail , February 11, 1936.
  4. ↑ "Whitby Patient Held Behind Bars, Says LeBourdais". The Globe and Mail , October 1, 1949.
  5. ↑ "Parties Name Nominees in 169 Seats Today". Lethbridge Herald , October 7, 1935.
  6. ↑ "Name Isabel LeBourdais Most Newsworthy Woman". Brandon Sun , December 24, 1966.
  7. ↑ "Miscellaneous Topics Provide Grist for Authors' Literary Mills". Winnipeg Free Press , December 5, 1931.
  8. ↑ "Rich Northern Resources Index to Canada's Future". The Globe and Mail , April 28, 1951.
  9. ↑ "Invest Wisely". The Globe and Mail , October 11, 1952.
  10. ↑ "Books received". Winnipeg Free Press , December 19, 1953.
  11. ↑ "Rocky Sudbury Sustained By Vast Mineral Wealth". The Globe and Mail , December 19, 1953.
  12. ↑ W.T. Easterbrook and M.H. Watkins, Approaches to Canadian Economic History. McGill-Queens University Press, 1967. ISBN   9780773591240. p. 277.
  13. ↑ "Canada leader or satellite?" Lac du Bonnet Springfield Leader, January 19, 1960.
  14. ↑ "Stefansson: Ambassador of the North by D.M. LeBourdais". Ottawa Citizen , December 7, 1963.
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