Across Canada by Story
Title | Across Canada by Story PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Gibson |
Publisher | ECW Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1770907793 |
More adventures from one of Canada's premier editors and storytellers Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country's leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada's finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers. Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played almost 100 times, in all ten provinces, from coast to coast. As a literary tourist, he discovered even more about the land and its writers and harvested many more stories, from distant past and recent memory, to share. Now in Across Canada by Story, Gibson brings new stories about Robertson Davies, Jack Hodgins, W.O. Mitchell, Alistair MacLeod, and Alice Munro, and adds lively portraits of Al Purdy, Marshall McLuhan, Margaret Laurence, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Margaret Atwood, Wayne Johnson, Linwood Barclay, Michael Ondaatje, and many, many others. Whether fly fishing in Haida Gwaii or sailing off Labrador, Douglas Gibson is a first-rate ambassador for Canada and the power of great stories.
Rails Across Canada
Title | Rails Across Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Murray |
Publisher | Voyageur Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011-03-07 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1610601394 |
Few stories in the annals of railroading are as compelling as the construction, evolution, and astounding successes of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. This sprawling volume combines two of Voyageur Press' most successful Railroad Color History titles into one volume taking in the grand scope of both railroads. Author Tom Murray presents fastidiously researched and concisely presented histories of each railroad, along with more than 300 photographs, including rare archival black-and-white images and modern and period color photography sourced from national archives and private collections.
Wings Across Canada
Title | Wings Across Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Pigott |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1550024124 |
Here is the ultimate lineup of aircraft that have served Canada so well in peace and war, from the Sabre to the CF-18 to the North Star
Rails Across Canada
Title | Rails Across Canada PDF eBook |
Author | David Cable |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2015-10-30 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1473838061 |
The railways of Canada, like the network in the U.S.A, have a fascination to many people, both in North America and those who live elsewhere.
Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada
Title | Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Pierce |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0774842059 |
What is a sustainable community? The pressing need to answer this simple question is what prompted John Pierce and Ann Dale to gather the essays in this volume. Communities, Development, and Sustainability across Canada is a timely synthesis of work on how Canadian communities can achieve sustainable development. It bridges the gap between theory and praxis and brings together academics, policy makers, and community activists, all of whom have argued for increased local participation in sustainable community development. Communities have become the weak link in efforts to refashion relations between the environment and the economy. The goal of this book is not simply to describe problems but also to suggest answers, not simply to offer theory but also to promote action, so that Canadian communities can better achieve sustainable development.
Implementing and Working with the Youth Criminal Justice Act across Canada
Title | Implementing and Working with the Youth Criminal Justice Act across Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Alain |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1442630108 |
Implementing and Working with the Youth Criminal Justice Act across Canada provides the first comprehensive, province-by-province analysis of how each Canadian jurisdiction has implemented the Act in accordance with its own history, traditions, and institutional arrangements.
Beyond the Trees
Title | Beyond the Trees PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Shoalts |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0735236844 |
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer." In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America's greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it's still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being. Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies a maze of obstacles: shifting ice floes, swollen rivers, fog-bound lakes, and gale-force storms. And Shoalts must time his departure by the breakup of the spring ice, then sprint across nearly 4,000 kilometers of rugged, wild terrain to arrive before winter closes in. He travels alone up raging rivers that only the most expert white-water canoeists dare travel even downstream. He must portage across fields of jagged rocks that stretch to the horizon, and navigate labyrinths of swamps, tormented by clouds of mosquitoes every step of the way. And the race against the calendar means that he cannot afford the luxuries of rest, or of making mistakes. Shoalts must trek tirelessly, well into the endless Arctic summer nights, at times not even pausing to eat. But his reward is the adventure of a lifetime. Heart-stopping, wonder-filled, and attentive to the majesty of the natural world, Beyond the Trees captures the ache for adventure that afflicts us all.