Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early politicians George Simpson and James Douglas; revolutionary Metis leader Louis Riel; writer Robertson Davies; and early movie star Mary Pickford.

• Louis Riel
• James Wilson Morrice
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson
• Robertson Davies
• James Douglas
• William C. Van Horne
• George Simpson
• Tom Thomson
• Simon Girty
• Mary Pickford