Travels and Identities: Elizabeth and Adam Shortt in Europe, 1911

Elizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shortt, enjoyed a successful career as a professor of politics and economics at Queen's University in Kingston. In 1908 Adam Shortt relocated his family to Ottawa to take up a commission to oversee civil service reform under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. There he convinced his superiors that an onsite investigation of four European...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771122250
• ISBN13: 9781771122252
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"