About P.B. Waite P.B. Waite is professor emeritus, Dalhousie University, and the author of The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867 and The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister. He is an officer of the Order of Canada. Books by P.B. Waite In Search of R.B. Bennett by (author) P.B. Waite Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865 by (author) P.B. Waite Lives of Dalhousie University, Volume 2 1925-1980, The Old College Transformed by (author) P.B. Waite Lives of Dalhousie University, Volume 1 1818-1925, Lord Dalhousie's College by (author) P.B. Waite