Marco Thomas

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Canadian Business Hall of Fame

Thank you very much for your work on adding articles to the Canadian Business Hall of Fame category, which I created recently. TruthbringerToronto 19:45, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Shadrach Minkins

• My source on the burial of Shadrach Minkins is Shadrach Minkins : From Fugitive Slave to Citizen by Gary L. Collison, Harvard University Press (1998) ISBN 0674802993 (paperback), "Epilogue," starting at p. 217. Minkins' grave is not marked. Collison gives the exact location and states that the information is from a record at the cemetery. I'm writing this from memory and the book information on Amazon.com Cuppysfriend 18:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• I dug out my copy of Collison's book. Here's what he says about the Minkins burial site:

The Protestant Cemetery on the northwest side of Mount Royal seems steeped in silent, inscruitable memories. The visitor who enters at the noth gate and follows the curving gravel path past Lilac Knoll soon comes to the old B-2 section, surmounted by an ancient white birch of gigantic proportions. Here, at his gravesite, Shadrach Minkins' memory once again comes alive. No stone marks his grave; only the yellowing three-by-five-inch card in the records office at the gate commemorates his burial here. But on a darkening late spring afternoon, among the mossy stones overgrown by the spirea and lilace and yew planted long ago to memorialize the dead, it is possible to conjure up the memory of the fugitive slave who lies here with two of his children. --pp. 223-224. Cuppysfriend 18:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

• Collison is the authority. I intended to do the article myself, but kept putting it off until I could do more than a stub. Well, you ended my streak of procrastination. Now there's a stub. Feel free to add to it. I hope the Canada-related categories are on point. Cuppysfriend 00:43, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Request for comments

There is a request for comments on the Robert Latimer page; please see Talk:Robert Latimer#Request for comments. Rosemary Amey 22:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs

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