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Par Richard Underwood, Brenda Breeden Underwood. 1989
This guide to a healthy, active retirement includes tips on creating an exercise plan, starting a healthy diet, and creating…
goals for your retirement years. The authors also discuss personal security, support groups and coping with loss. 1989.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.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.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.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.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.Widower of the novelist Iris Murdoch tells an inspirational, painful, and ultimately uplifting story of how he had to grapple…
with his fate as a man by beginning life anew, in his mid-seventies. 2001.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.Par Martha Weinman Lear. 2008
Perhaps the greatest source of anxiety for America's aging boomers is what's happening to their memory. Lear provides reassurance (a…
certain amount of forgetfulness in the middle-aged and young elderly is normal) along with the holy quartet of memory aids: eat healthily, avoid stress, get lots of sleep, and exercise both body and mind regularly. For those who fear early-onset Alzheimer's, Lear provides a chart differentiating normal memory loss from dementia, and describes new research on drugs that improve memory and cognition. 2008.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.Par William Molloy. 1996
Geriatrician William Molloy provides a practical guide for adult children who face the difficulties of caring for elderly parents. He…
describes the physical changes which accompany aging, and deals with sexuality, health, independence, loneliness, and the fear of being institutionalized. He also discusses relationships and communication between the generations, and how to select a retirement or nursing facility. 1996.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.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.Par Stuart McLean. 1992
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.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.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.Par Hélène Gagné. 2009
Ne vous faites plus d'illusions : vous ne dépenserez pas moins à la retraite que maintenant, votre maison ne sera…
pas votre ultime refuge financier, votre fonds de pension sera peut-être moins généreux que vous ne le pensez, vos rentes provenant des régimes publics risquent d'être insuffisantes, sans compter que les gouvernements n'auront pas les moyens de payer pour vos soins de santé. Pourtant, une retraite confortable est encore possible, assure Hélène Gagné. Il faut regarder les choses en face, établir ses objectifs et passer à l'action sans plus attendre. 2009.Par R. D Lawrence. 1982