Building a Province: 60 Alberta Lives is a book of short biographical profiles written by Irish-Canadian author Brian Brennan. It takes as its point of departure the feature obituaries Brennan wrote while working as a staff columnist with the Calgary Herald between 1992 and 1999.
The book made the first of six weekly appearances on the Calgary Herald bestsellers list on Nov. 11, 2000, rising to the number one position on Jan. 6, 2001.
The profiled Albertans include the following:
Bill Gold
Leonard Gaetz
Sir James Lougheed
Bob Edwards
Henry Wise Wood
Victoria Calihoo
Henry Marshall Tory
Richard Gavin Reid
J. Percy Page
Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance
Kathleen Parlow
Morris Shumiatcher
Eric Harvie
Jock Palmer
Betty Mitchell
Peggy Holmes
Stastia Cross Carry
Carl Anderson
Vera Jacques Ireland
Charlie Edgar
Bert Sheppard
Catherine Barclay
Grant MacEwan
George DuPre
Hazel Braithwaite
Mary Dover
James H. Gray
Kerry Wood
Alice Murdoch Adams
Arnold Platt
Nicholas Morant
Melvin "Fritz" Hanson
Fred C. Mannix
Violet Archer
Harry Strom
Jimmy "the Con" Carleton
W.O. Mitchell
Jean Hoare
Father Pat O'Byrne
Jack Gallagher
William Morrow
Betty O'Hanlon
Webster Macdonald Sr. Stan Waters Clarence Horatius Miller Roloff Beny Bill Pratt Alexander Gray Bob Hatfield Glen Gorbous Johnny Bright Bob Johnson Walter Twinn Helen Collinson Grant Notley Sheldon Chumir David Walsh Allan Stein