Book Launch: Truth Be Told

with Beverley McLachlin

Hosted by Mark Sutcliffe

In Person Non-Fict History

General Admission

Free

Wednesday

Sep , 2019

7:30pm

Eastern

Library and Archives Canada

395 Wellington St. • Ottawa

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Beverley McLachlin · Photo by Jean-Marc Carisse

Her legacy . . . is now part of the country’s foundations.

The Globe and Mail

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country.

Presented with Library and Archives Canada and Ottawa Public Library

The Authors

Beverley McLachlin

Beverley McLachlin is the #1 bestselling author of two novels, Full Disclosure and Denial, and a memoir, Truth Be Told, which won the prestigious Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the Ottawa Book Award for Nonfiction. From 2000 to 2017, McLachlin was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She is the first woman to hold that position and the longest-serving Chief Justice in Canadian history. In 2018, McLachlin became a Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest honour within the Order. Visit her at BeverleyMcLachlin.com.