Victor and Evie : British aristocrats in wartime Rideau Hall /

Victor and Evie : British aristocrats in wartime Rideau Hall /

"In the middle of the Great War, Victor Cavendish, the ninth Duke of Devonshire, and his wife Lady Evelyn landed in Halifax in November 1916 so he could serve as the governor general of Canada. Throughout the difficult years of the First World War and its aftermath, the new governor general tra...

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Main Author: Phillips, Dorothy Anne, 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Devonshire, Victor Christian William Cavendish, > Duke of, > 1868-1938.
Devonshire, Evelyn Cavendish, > Duchess of.
Rideau Hall (Ottawa, Ont.) > History > 20th century.
1900-1999
Aristocracy (Social class) > Great Britain > Biography.
Governors general > Canada > Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Canada.
Biographies
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Canada beckons
  • Getting settled in the colony
  • Maintaining imperial standards
  • Honours : the first conflict
  • The blossoming of Lady Maud
  • Summer adventures, 1917
  • Crises of state
  • A most notable wedding
  • Travels from coast to coast
  • A troubled winter, 1918
  • Honours : the "unmitigated nuisance" returns
  • Blue sea lake and other summer pleasures, 1918
  • Influenza, armistice, and aftermath
  • Parliament rejects British hereditary honours Again
  • Evie in England, 1919
  • The Winnipeg General Strike
  • The duty and pleasure of summer 1919
  • The Prince of Wales, and other peacetime pleasures
  • Dorothy and Harold
  • The end of an era.

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