Canada’s House: Rideau Hall and the Invention of a Canadian Homeby by Margaret Macmillan, Marjorie Harris, Anne L. Desjardins
Three leading writers come together to tell the story of how Rideau Hall has come to reflect so much that is both distinctive and excellent from across Canada.
Praise for Canada’s House
“A heady, handsome volume. . . . A comprehensive cultural and historical account. . . . Stuffed with mouth-watering photographs and assembled with a palpable sense of pride, it pulls off the difficult trick of being both good-looking and scholastically impressive. . . . Each [section is] written beautifully and authoritatively by experts in the field. . . . A gallery of Canadian splendours past and present. . . . This book is mesmerising.”
-Quill & Quire
“Canada’s House does the vice-regal residence justice.”
-Macleans
“Canada’s House has a family album feel, its prose seasoned with info bites and plenty of photographs of Rideau Hall past and present.”
-The Globe and Mail
“A sumptuous marriage of words and images. . . . Canada’s House . . . is a loving look at the growth of a Canadian identity.”
-The Ottawa Citizen
"The illustrations, the conversations, and the writing are excellent."
-New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal
“Canada’s House is a splendid book, lush, stylish and laced with interesting lore. It is a book to be read and re-read, owned and slowly savoured.”
-The London Free Press
