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On the road again
Par Wayne Rostad. 1996
Rostad revisits some of most interesting guests on his television show, "On the Road Again." Some of the extraordinary people…
he introduces are a Newfoundland man who is a connoisseur and salesman of fine iceberg ice, a couple in British Columbia who won the lottery but kept on running the town garbage dump, an Alberta man who eats bugs, and a Quebec woman who has adopted 24 disabled children.The ice passage: a true story of ambition, disaster, and endurance in the arctic wilderness
Par Brian Payton. 2009
Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator…
sets sail in search of them. Instead of rescuing lost comrades, the Investigator's officers and crew soon find themselves trapped in their own ordeal, facing starvation, madness, and death. If only they can save themselves, they will bring back news of a great achievement: their discovery of the elusive Northwest Passage. 2009.Winter
Par Pierre Berton. 1994
Pierre Berton considers what it means to live in the north, what we do to survive the season, ways we…
celebrate it and how, specifically, we hate it. The book is filled with personal reminiscences, popular history, "big storm" statistics, and seasonal sports, including the attempt to deny winter altogether by escaping to malls and Miami. 1994.Wind, whales and whiskey: a Cape Breton voyage
Par Silver Donald Cameron. 1991
In 1990 Cameron, along with his wife and son, sailed their cutter the "Silversark" around Cape Breton Island. At each…
stop along the way, they discovered a place rich in history and filled with extraordinary inhabitants. A detailed and engaging account of a different sort of summer vacation. 1991.Wilderness mother: The Chronicle Of A Modern Pioneer
Par Deanna Kawatski. 1994
In 1978, the author began a job as the first female fire tower attendant in BC, in the remote Ningunsaw…
Valley. In this setting she met her woodsman husband and brought up two children. An account of living life to the fullest in the challenging northwest wilderness of British Columbia. 1994.Wilderness seasons: life and adventure in Canada's north
Par Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson. 1987
The authors relate how they fulfilled their dream of leaving the city to live in isolation in the wilderness. They…
tell of building a log cabin to survive the harsh winter, and their other experiences. c1987.Wild stone heart: an apprentice in the fields
Par Sharon Butala. 2000
Writer Sharon Butala and her husband, Peter, decided to let a field on their Saskatchewan land return to its natural…
state. Over a twenty-year period, she ruminated over its secrets, travelling back in time from the dinosaur period and the Ice Age to the more recent life of the Amerindians and the arrival of the settlers, ranging over prehistory, natural history, Amerindian custom, the farming and ranching ways of life, and the politics of the West today. As she tried to understand its lessons, the field became a tabula rasa on which she could project her own dreams and imaginings. 2000.Why we act like Canadians: a personal exploration of our national character
Par Pierre Berton. 1982
In this essay which takes the form of letters written to an American friend, Berton's conviction is that Canadian culture…
has its own unique origins and that we are a people quite distinct from Americans. 1982.Whatever happened to Maggie and other people I've known
Par Edna Staebler. 1983
This collection of pieces read like fiction, but have the impact of real life. Ranges from Memmonites in Kitchener, Hutterites…
in Alberta, an orphanage in Nova Scotia, and the fishermen on Cape Breton Island. 1983.For her 50th birthday, Jane Christmas finds herself leading fourteen women along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a centuries-old…
European pilgrimage route. Before she leaves, Christmas consults with a psychic, who warns of catfights, lost jewelry, encounters with celebrities, a visit from Death, and a fair-haired man. After less than a week, Christmas sets out on her own, battling loneliness, hunger, and exhaustion while encountering charming villages, forests, more compatible pilgrims - and a fair-haired man. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2007.The author focuses on the part of the CPR which was built through the Rocky Mountains. He describes the various…
routes, the problems faced by engineers, and the construction of bridges and tunnels. 1987.Western and eastern rambles: travel sketches of Nova Scotia
Par Joseph Howe, M. G Parks. 1973
In 1828, Joseph Howe, still only in his early twenties, began publishing a series of travel sketches in his newspaper,…
the "Novascotian." Written during his frequent travels in his province, they provide a unique account of the Nova Scotia of the nineteenth century. c1973.Welcome home: travels in smalltown Canada
Par Stuart McLean. 1992
Walking the line
Par Marian Botsford Fraser. 1989
The author walked the Canadian-American border, visiting people on both sides in an effort to understand what it means to…
them. She discovered living memories, legends and stories present in family albums and graveyards. 1989.Walk to New York: a journey out of the wilds of Canada
Par Charles Wilkins. 2004
In the spring of 2002, writer Charles Wilkins walked east from his home in Thunder Bay, Ontario to New York…
City. Wilkins met poets, hillbillies, even a baronial black African recently released from a torture prison, and visited wilderness mansions, mountain shacks, a Toronto cemetery, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Throughout, he muses on walking - its history, its culture, its decline, and perhaps most of all its ability to replenish the senses and reconstitute a world shrunken by cyberspace and jet travel. 2004.Voyages et rencontres en franco-Amérique ((Hamac-carnets).)
Par Dean Louder. 2013
Dean Louder voue une véritable passion à la Franco-Amérique et n'a de cesse d'en explorer les contrées avec sa petite…
fourgonnette transformée en campeur. Au cours des dernières années, il a raconté sur son blogue plusieurs de ses voyages. Ce géographe d'origine américaine, mais Québécois d'adoption et de coeur, offre ici le meilleur de ses pérégrinations en huit itinéraires qui sont autant de rencontres avec des Acadiens, des francophones du Canada et des États-Unis, des Cadiens, des Créoles et, bien sûr, quelques Québécois croisés sur son chemin. 2013.Voyage of the Stella
Par R. D Lawrence. 1982
Unlikely utopia: the surprising triumph of Canadian pluralism
Par Michael Adams, Amy Langstaff. 2007
Around the world, sectarian tensions divide societies, sometimes erupting into violent confrontation, and some pundits argue that similar convulsions will…
shake Canada's multicultural foundations. Adams argues that Canadians don't see this as inevitable - rather, they suspect that the world might just be disabused of its "realism" by the success of the Canadian multicultural experiment. By focusing on the more mundane task of helping people of all kinds get along - both materially and socially - Canada may prove to be the "experiment" that worked. 2007.Une île pour sauver la planète: l'aventure arctique d'un Robinson des glaces
Par Emmanuel Hussenet. 2017
L'île Hans a fait l'actualité internationale, en 2010, lorsque le Danemark et le Canada en ont revendiqué tour à tour…
la possession. Pourquoi cette dispute à propos d'un rocher désert d'à peine un kilomètre carré situé au 80e parallèle ? Pour les ressources pétrolières qui s'y trouvent ! Parti en kayak rejoindre cette île qui n'appartient en réalité qu'au silence et au blizzard, le journaliste Emmanuel Hussenet raconte son incroyable périple dans le froid extrême et les glaces dérivantes. Il constate qu'à cause du réchauffement climatique, l'océan Arctique est maintenant en partie navigable. Mais ce changement entraînera d'autres conséquences : les courants marins ralentiront, l'oxygène dans l'eau se raréfiera - au détriment des poissons -, et les mers gonfleront jusqu'à atteindre un niveau catastrophique pour les populations côtières. Cependant, rien n'est encore perdu. Un audacieux projet de géo-ingénierie pourrait faire de l'île Hans une sorte de thermostat planétaire et ainsi sauver l'Arctique. 2017. Titre uniforme: Robinson des glacesTungsten John: being an account of some inconclusive but nonetheless informative attempts to reach the South Nahanni River by foot and bicycle
Par John Harris, Vivien Lougheed. 2000
Harris' subtitle says it all: 'Being an Account of some inconclusive but nonetheless informative attempts to reach the South Nahanni…
River by foot and bicycle', interspersed with stories of research into a number of startling new facts concerning the dramatic history of Nahanni. 2000.