In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John White arrived on the Canadian scene, was actually John's sister. Further, he suggests that John White can be best understood by recognizing that he was in fact Eliza!
- ISBN10 0773507655
- ISBN13 9780773507654
- Publish Date 1 August 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 August 2015
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 262
- Language English