The Mcgill Family
The Mcgill Family

Author: Kathleen McGill

Publisher:

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781519640536

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Henry Frank McGill, a man of vision, overcame great odds to become a prominent rancher in South Texas in the early 1900's. His story, and the legacy he left to his descendants, contains numerous pictures of ranch and family life.In spite of hardship and lack of opportunity, he set out to earn his fortune by trading horses and cattle in the most dangerous area of Texas known as the Nueces Strip, which is also the home of the famous King Ranch.J. Frank Dobie, legendary Texas author, dedicated a chapter of his book, "The Longhorns", "to my good friend, Frank McGill, as good a man as he is a cow man."He was admired and respected by his peers, not only for his success in the cattle business, but perhaps even more importantly, for his integrity and generosity. Frank McGill "hitched his wagon to a star", and his life story will inspire others to do the same.

Hostage in Taipei
Hostage in Taipei

Author: McGill Alexander

Publisher:

Published: 2001-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780967038629

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A South African diplomat family taken hostage by a ruthless killer in Taiwan 1997, and thrown into media frenzy and gun battles with police, later witnessed to their faith before TV news media in a non-Christian nation eager to hear how anyone could show forgiveness toward a killer who had mercilessly harmed them and terrorized the entire island.

Architecture in the Family Way
Architecture in the Family Way

Author: Annmarie Adams

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780773522398

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Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.

Molly Bannaky
Molly Bannaky

Author: Alice McGill

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780395722879

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Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.

James McGill of Montreal
James McGill of Montreal

Author: Stanley Brice Frost

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780773512979

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James McGill is well known as the founder of McGill University but the rest of his accomplishments remain little known. This new biography reveals the fascinating life story of a man who, as fur trader, merchant, public servant, and colonel of the militia, played a significant role in Canada's development.

Families in Transition
Families in Transition

Author: Peter Gossage

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780773518476

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Using a family-reconstruction method, Gossage (history, U. de Sherbrooke) explores how the rise of industrial capitalism transformed the lives of the Quebec town's French-speaking, Catholic families. He draws on local registers and manuscript census schedules to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in the context of the social and economic change. Among his findings are a growing divergence between bourgeois and proletarian families in regard to marriage and fertility patterns. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

The Butterfly Cabinet
The Butterfly Cabinet

Author: Bernie McGill

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1451611609

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Originally published: London: Headline Review, 2010.