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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.When freedoms collide: the case for our civil liberties
Par A. Alan Borovoy. 1988
Discusses some of the civil liberty and human rights issues with which Canadians are faced, including pornography, hate literature, affirmative…
action employment practices, police powers, right to privacy, the protection of minorities, and the rights of strikers, welfare recipients, and the mentally ill. 1988.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
Until you are dead: Steven Truscott's long ride into history
Par Julian Sher. 2001
In 1959, 14-year-old Steven Truscott was arrested for the murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper near Clinton, Ontario. Though sentenced to…
death, Truscott's sentence was eventually commuted and he was released ten years later, all the while maintaining his innocence. This account details the case, trial, and Truscott's new appeal to have the case reopened. 2001.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.Tundra: selections from the great accounts of Arctic land voyages
Par Farley Mowat. 1973
Stories from the journals of European explorers who penetrated the Canadian tundra or the Barrens, that vast stretch of land…
north of the timber line and south of the Arctic seas. Describes their dealings with the Inuits and Indians, including the lessons in polar adaptation and survival learned from the native peoples. Sequel to "Polar passion". 1973.Toronto: a literary guide
Par Greg Gatenby. 1999
What do Wilde, Hemingway, Yeats and Dickens all have in common? Besides being writers, they were all part of the…
Toronto landscape at one time or another. Written as a series of neighbourhood walking tours, this guide introduces the reader to over 500 authors who have lived or visited Toronto over the past 150 years. 1999.Toronto the wild: field notes of an urban naturalist
Par Wayne Grady. 1995
Toronto is home to more wild wildlife today than in the nineteenth century. Thousands of species of native flora and…
fauna grow in a city which has become a lush ecosystem in itself. Wayne Grady writes about the extraordinary natural world which exists in Toronto's backyards and valleys. c1995.Tintin et le Québec: Hergé au coeur de la Révolution tranquille
Par Tristan Demers. 2010
L'histoire d'amour entre Tintin et les jeunes lecteurs québécois a commencé bien avant qu'Hergé ne foule pour la première fois…
le sol américain, en 1965. Lors de son séjours au Québec, des milliers d'admirateurs se pressent autour de lui et, réciproquement, Hergé ressent d'emblée pour ce pays une sympathie profonde. Cet ouvrage à l'allure de journal retrace le voyage d'Hergé à Montréal, Québec et Manicouagan. Salon du Livre : Lauréat volet Vie pratique 2011. 2010.