The Consummate Canadian - Dundurn

The Consummate Canadian

A Biography of Samuel Weir Q.C.

Published January 1990

Description

Samuel Edward Weir Q.C. (1898-1981), a man both loved and reviled with scorn, was born in London, Ontario. Descended from pioneer stock, with roots in both Ireland and Germany, Samuel Weir possessed incisive wit, exceptional intelligence and a passionate zest for any subject that caught his eye. Over a period of sixty years he built an extraordinary collection of approximately one thousand works of outstanding art and sculpture.

This extensively researched biography of a talented yet quixotic lawyer who contributed much to Canada’s heritage begins in the early 19th century and covers well over a hundred years of our nation’s growth, until his death at his home, River Brink, in Queenston, Ontario.

Today, River Brink is the gallery in which The Weir Collection is exhibited and housed.

Contributors

Mary Willan Mason

Mary Willan Mason was born in Toronto into a prominent musical family and graduated from University College at the University of Toronto. A lifelong and dedicated student of fine art, she has written extensively on the subject. The Consummate Canadian is her first biography of a collector.

Book Details

ePub
January 1990
-
312 pp
9781554883202
ePub
January 1990
-
312 pp
9781770704299
Paperback
January 1990
10x8 in
312 pp
9781896219387
Hardcover
January 1990
10x8 in
312 pp
9781896219400