Charlotte Gray panel presentation - 2015 Canada's History Forum

In this presentation, Charlotte Gray speaks about her experiences of telling women's stories. 

Hosted by Canada’s History Society

 — Posted October 15, 2015
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Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s most acclaimed historians and biographers. In this presentation, she speaks about how she tells women’s stories within the framework of the five standard journalistic questions: who, what, why, when, and how.

Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers and author of over ten acclaimed books of literary non-fiction. The television miniseries, Klondike, broadcast on Discovery Channel in January 2014, was based on Charlotte’s 2010 award-winner Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike. A former Chair of the Board of Canada’s National History Society, she is a member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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