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The 70 delegates to the annual conference of the northwest area of Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters could scarcely contain themselves as the speaker from Lancaster ripped into the Minister of Education. Sir David Eccles, said the speaker, "has achieved the impossible. Alone and unaided and with consummate...
In Winnipeg last week, William John Eccles, a University of Manitoba history lecturer, said flatly that history has been giving Frontenac far more than his due. Eccles spent most of the past three years poring over musty records in the Ottawa archives and in Paris. Eccles' research, presented in...
About the only heroic thing that Eccles found on Frontenac's record was the size of the count's debts. At 44, Frontenac owed $440,000. He had tried to ease the burden by marrying the daughter of a wealthy advocate, but that scheme failed when the daughter...
A hotheaded, overbearing man, Frontenac quarreled constantly with other colonial officials, not only over administrative affairs but also to get more than his share of the graft from the rich fur trade. He was far less pugnacious with the Indians. Eccles claims that in the critical year of 1681 Frontenac...
Will school history books now be rewritten to conform with Eccles' research? Probably not. Said Historian J. W. Chafe, author of the Manitoba high-school text: "It's going to be tough to write textbooks if every character in history is going to be debunked."