Peter Munk: The Making of a Modern Tycoon

Peter Munk is Canada’s King Midas. Chairman and CEO of American Barrick Resources Corporation and The Horsham Corporation, the latter a wallet of assets bought with gold profits, he collects money and powerful friends yet ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shadowlight: A Photographer’s Life

By Freeman Patterson

Freeman Patterson’s landscapes – far-flung places seemingly untouched by humans – reveal a symmetry and pattern of light, line, and colour. For Patterson, nature is beauty, spiritual reflection, and potential grace.Some may find such iconic ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

At Twilight in the Country: Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist

By Mel Hurtig

Is it all right to say that Mel Hurtig – bookseller, publisher, author, public speaker, and (in the best sense) patriot – has been one of my minor heroes? As Canada’s first real regionally based ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Laughing on the Outside: The Life of John Candy

By Martin Knelman

In his biography Laughing on the Outside: The Life of John Candy, Martin Knelman, an award-winning Canadian magazine journalist, has the unenviable task of bringing down to Earth the memory of John Candy, a comedian ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family

By Elaine Kalman Naves

Anyone who has listened to a parent spin family yarns knows that such stories are concoctions of myth and fact. But the books that emerge from these tales – Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Barbara Frum: A Daughter’s Memoir

By Linda Frum

When Barbara Frum died at age 54 on March 26, 1992, media outlets across Canada noted her passing with an outpouring of grief and praise.As an interviewer for CBC Radio’s “As It Happens” and subsequently ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years – a Boy’s Tale

By Manny Drukier

Edgar Bronfman and Manny Drukier were both born into Jewish families, within a year of each other. Bronfman was born in Montreal in 1929; Drukier, in Lvov, Poland, 1928. Bronfman was bar mitzvahed in 1942, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Making of a Jew

By Edgar M. Bronfman

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ From Protest to Power: Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics

By Bob Rae

This is without question one of the best memoirs by a Canadian politician. It is splendidly written, moving, funny, personal, and eloquent. At times, Bob Rae’s prose can make you laugh out loud or weep. ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

This Dark Embrace

By Paul Stuewe

Los Angeles in the Dirty Thirties, and a dead-end kid from Toronto is trying to break free of the hobo jungle by driving a cab, when who should hop into the back seat with the ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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