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CANADIAN HISTORICAL BOOKS
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Pierre Berton. By Fifth House Books.
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No comments about Exploring the Frozen North: Pierre Berton's History for Young Canadians.
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Maria Monk. By Diggory Press.
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No comments about Confessions of a Nun. Or, The Reality of Roman Catholicism Revealed by Awful Disclosures of Convent Life in 1800s Canada.
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Peter Erasmus. By Fifth House Books.
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No comments about Buffalo Days and Nights (Western Canadian Classics).
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Robert Galois and James Colnett. By UBC Press.
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No comments about Voyage to the Northwest Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89.
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Robin Reilly. By Cassell.
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No comments about Wolfe of Quebec (Cassell Military Paperbacks).
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Rae Murphy and Robert Chodos and Nick Auf der Maur. By Lorimer.
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No comments about Brian Mulroney: The Boy from Baie-Comeau.
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Charlotte Gray. By .
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No comments about Nellie McClung (Extraordinary Canadians).
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by L. Wayne Carlson. By Insomniac Press.
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2 comments about Breakfast with the Devil.
- Every few months or so I need to read a book or at least an essay such as this account of man surviving the, for most, unsurvivable. Papillon is one such story I would compare to Carlson's, the indomitability of an undefeatable man. That must be redundant, but I'm a bit bleary because I haven't been able to put the book down.
What makes Carlson so winsome, beyond his genius for survival and escape, is his essential romantic innocence and affection for humanity. Despite his decades of imprisonment he seems to have maintained his human spirit, truly a miracle! A wealth of observational detail on life, friendship and survival. One hopes he does a sequel.
- I had the great pleasure of meeting Wayne Carlson on a cross-Canada music festival train trip in April 2004. Many of us on the train bought Wayne's book, and I read it with interest and pleasure. Doing so increased my astonishment that anyone could spend as much of a life in such lousy circumstances and emerge with humanity and humor intact. His narrative proves that he has. In an age when, certainly in the U.S., and probably to some extent in Canada as well, any pretense that the criminal justice system is intended to rehabilitate anyone is nothing but pretense, Wayne's story indicates that rehabilitation is possible. Great compelling read.
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Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Roderick L. Haig-Brown. By Ayer Co Pub.
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No comments about Measure of the Year (Essay index reprint series).
Posted in Canadian Historical (Saturday, October 11, 2008)
Written by Michael Petrou. By University of British Columbia Press.
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No comments about Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War (Studies in Canadian Military History).
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Exploring the Frozen North: Pierre Berton's History for Young Canadians
Confessions of a Nun. Or, The Reality of Roman Catholicism Revealed by Awful Disclosures of Convent Life in 1800s Canada
Buffalo Days and Nights (Western Canadian Classics)
Voyage to the Northwest Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89
Wolfe of Quebec (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
Brian Mulroney: The Boy from Baie-Comeau
Nellie McClung (Extraordinary Canadians)
Breakfast with the Devil
Measure of the Year (Essay index reprint series)
Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War (Studies in Canadian Military History)
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