The Indigenous roots of one of Alberta s longest serving and best-known premiers is explored in a new book focusing on the ancestry of Peter Lougheed and his Métis grandmother.
"The Premier and His Grandmother" is written by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon, an academic from Red Deer who studies the important role Indigenous women have played in Prairies history.
The reaction to Doris Jeanne MacKinnon’s earlier book, ‘Métis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed,’ prompted her to write about the Lougheed family
CALGARY The Indigenous roots of one of Alberta's longest serving and best-known premiers is explored in a new book focusing on the ancestry of Peter Lougheed and his Métis grandmother.