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This may seem a little off track. Your consideration hoped for. At our local library there is a display shelf on which a thinking person puts out latest publications. I presume they think that the shelves hide these gems.

I encountered a book titled:

Private Demons- Author:Patricia Phenix: McClelland and Stewart 2006

It is of the personal life on John Alexander Macdonald (1815-1891) who is called the father of confederation by some. Canada's Scottish born Prime Minister.

As an immigrant it enabled me to understand much more of the old Dominion of Canada. It has withstood many trials. Fancy labels and internationalists, multi-culture and all.

We stand on guard for thee. Hopefully!(friendly chuckle)

Here's a famous Conservative Party campaign poster from Sir John A's last hurrah - the sweeping victory in the 1891 general election.

The image of him being carried is doubly ironic both because he died a few months later and was renowned as a life-long functional drunkard.

btw, Canada's 2nd Prime Minister, Liberal Alexander MacKenzie who briefly interrupted MacDonald's long run, was also born in Scotland.

The 'Bob & Doug MacKenzie' act is funny on one level since heavy drinking & Scots' surnames both have a strong - and often related - basis in Canadian historical fact.