The horrible events of September 11, 2001 have spawned a flurry of e-mail activity that included one titled "A Tribute to the United States". This was actually written at the end of the Viet Nam war by Gordon Sinclair. Listen to the original CFRB broadcast of The Americans by Gordon …
Trivia EH? Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Banting was Canada's first Nobel Laureate. Banting was born November 14, 1891 in their farmhouse in Alliston, Ontario. (North of Toronto) In the summer of 1921, Banting was being funded for his work on insulin by his father & brother - he was not receiving a salary. During WWI, he received …
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Sir Frederick Banting, with John James Richard Macleod, won the Nobel Prize in 1923 in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hormone insulin. Banting began to test his theory in May 1921. Dr. C.H. Best became Banting's assistant because he had experience in biochemistry and physiology …