Apresentação de Karen Soarele para o curso English for Academic Purposes, da Nova Scotia Community College.

1. Anna
Swan
1846 – 1888
Library and Archives Canada

2. Anna
Swan
1846 – 1888
Library and Archives Canada

3. Anna Swan
Born in New Annan, NS, weighing
18 pounds (8,16 kg)
4 years old: 4 feet 6 inches tall
(1,93 m), displayed in Halifax as
the “Infant Giantess”
Enjoyed music and literature
15 to 17 years old: offered a job in
a museum in New York
“The Tallest Woman in the World”:
8 feet 1 inch (4,26 m), playing the
piano, acting in plays and giving
lectures
Library and Archives Canada

4. 1863: Went to England and met
Queen Victoria
1865: Fire at the museum
Toured the United States, Nova Scotia and
Europe
1871: Married Martin Bates, the “Kentucky Giant”
1874: Built a giant house in Ohio
Second son: 22 pounds (9.98 kg), 28 in (71.12
cm) – Guinness World Records
1888: Died of unexpected heart failure
Anna Swan

5. –Anna Swan’s grandmother
“Stand tall, lass, and be proud
of your highland ancestry.”

6. References
Forster, M. (2011). 100 More Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten
Faces. Toronto, ON: Dundurn.
Guinness World Records. (n.d.). Heaviest birth. Retrieved from
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/heaviest-birth
Library and Archives Canada. (1998). Anna Swan: Nova Scotia’s
Remarkable Giantess. Retrieved from http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/eppp-
archive/100/200/301/ic/can_digital_collections/aswan/index.htm