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A House Divided: The Untold Story of the McCain Family

The rise and subsequent demise of Canada’s potato kings is told in this superb chronicle. A family and social history as well as a business analysis, it’s a provocative text for any family firm that ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Blue Limbo

By Terence M. Green

Terence M. Green’s new novel, Blue Limbo, gets off to a fast start. When we first meet Green’s protagonist, Toronto police detective Mitch Helwig, he’s blowing up a drug kingpin’s warehouse singlehandedly. The opening scene ... Read More »

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

Deemed Unsuitable: The Search for Equality in Canada’s Prairie Provinces by Blacks from Oklahoma

By R. Bruce Shepard

Many Canadians feel extreme pride about their country’s role in the operation of the Underground Railroad. But Saskatchewan historian R. Bruce Shepard suggests that the much revered virtue of Canadian tolerance has been mostly a ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: History

Bowering’s B.C.: A Swashbuckling History

By George Bowering

As one might guess from the author and from the title, this is not a standard classroom history text. It is an occasionally personal, often quirky, and almost always readable look at B.C.Why swashbuckling? An ... Read More »

March 10, 2004

Brasseur & Eisler: To Catch a Dream

By Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler, with Lynda Prouse

This biography of figure-skating duo Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler is an attempt to dissect what appears to come naturally to the pair. While both had successful careers before they met, their union was a ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Peter Munk: The Making of a Modern Tycoon

By Donald Rumball

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

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A House Divided: The Untold Story of the McCain Family

Blue Limbo

Deemed Unsuitable: The Search for Equality in Canada’s Prairie Provinces by Blacks from Oklahoma

Bowering’s B.C.: A Swashbuckling History

Brasseur & Eisler: To Catch a Dream

Peter Munk: The Making of a Modern Tycoon

Shadowlight: A Photographer’s Life

At Twilight in the Country: Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist

Laughing on the Outside: The Life of John Candy

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

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