I Know That Name!: The People Behind Canada's Best Known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller

by Randy Ray, Mark Kearney

Every day Canadians buy groceries at Sobey's, develop film at Black's, or grab a coffee at Tim Horton's without giving it a second thought. These brands are in our lives and in the public eye. We're familiar with the names, but what do we really know about the people who lie behind them? I Know That Name! will answer these questions for you. It's full of fun facts, intriguing trivia, and engrossing explorations of more than one hundred Canadian men and women who beat the odds to become household names, including Timothy Eaton, Laura Secord, and J.L. Kraft.

Genres: History, Biography

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Randy Ray was born in Toronto and was educated at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. He was a reporter with the London Free Press for 13 years, the last three as the paper's Parliament Hill correspondent.

He has been a freelance writer and author since 1989 and has had articles published in many Canadian newspapers and magazines, including The Globe & Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Halifax Chronicle Herald and the Vancouver Sun. He has co-written nine books about Canada with Mark Kearney of London, Ontario.

Randy also works as a freelance publicist, helping authors, companies and charities land media coverage.

He is married and lives in Ottawa.

Reviews

[Duncan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great personal trip down memory Lane

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A brief look of some famous and surprising Canadians.