Download or read book Life Along the Opeongo Line written by Joan Finnigan and published by [Manotick, Ont.] : Penumbra Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Life in the Bush written by Roy MacGregor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The CAA–Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography The 2000 Ottawa-Carlton Book Award The (U.S.) Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book In 1929, at the age of twenty-two, Duncan MacGregor, the son of a lumberman, great-grandson of a voyageur, and an avid reader and baseball fan, headed off into the largest tract of preserved bush in the world: Ontario’s Algonquin Park. When he got there, he was home for the rest of his life. From the true nature of fishing to the harsh realities of raising a family in the woods, from the role of fear in the bush to the small nuances of family relationships, A Life in the Bush is painted on a canvas both vast and richly detailed. A story that captures the tough physical demands, the rich life of the senses, and the unselfconscious freedom that comes from living apart from town and city. In this beautifully crafted memoir of his father, Roy MacGregor paints an intimate portrait of an unusual man and spins a spellbinding tale of a boy’s complex relationship with his father. He also evokes, perhaps for the first time in Canadian literature, the bush the way bush people see it, an insider's view of life in the totemic Canadian wilderness.
Download or read book Creating Kashubia written by Joshua C. Blank and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, over one million Canadians have claimed Polish heritage - a significant population increase since the first group of Poles came from Prussian-occupied Poland and settled in Wilno, Ontario, west of Ottawa in 1858. For over a century, descendants from this community thought of themselves as Polish, but this began to change in the 1980s due to the work of a descendant priest who emphasized the community’s origins in Poland’s Kashubia region. What resulted was the reinvention of ethnicity concurrent with a similar movement in northern Poland. Creating Kashubia chronicles more than one hundred and fifty years of history, identity, and memory and challenges the historiography of migration and settlement in the region. For decades, authors from outside Wilno, as well as community insiders, have written histories without using the other’s stores of knowledge. Joshua Blank combines primary archival material and oral history with national narratives and a rich secondary literature to reimagine the period. He examines the socio-political and religious forces in Prussia, delves into the world of emigrant recruitment, and analyzes the trans-Atlantic voyage. In doing so, Blank challenges old narratives and traces the refashioning of the community’s ethnic identity from Polish to Kashubian. An illuminating study, Creating Kashubia shows how changing identities and the politics of ethnic memory are locally situated yet transnationally influenced.
Download or read book International Who s Who in Poetry 2005 written by Europa Publications and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 1787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Contents: * Each entry provides full career history and publication details * An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers * A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes * The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winners of the Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry and of the King's/Queen's Gold medal and other poetry prizes.
Download or read book Place Culture and Community written by Johanne Devlin Trew and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottawa Valley is a region of Canada straddling the Ottawa River in Ontario and Québec that is well known for its rich singing, storytelling, fiddling and step dancing traditions. Settled largely by the Irish, Scots and the French over the past two hundred years, it had largest concentration of people of Irish origin in Canada by the late 19th century. Travelling through the Valley one gets the sense of coming face to face with the past. While its dramatic history is filled with incidents of extreme hardship and tragedy, the overriding impression is of a triumphant survivalism associated with its strong men of the past; the voyageurs, the coureurs du bois and the lumbermen. The legacy of this unique heritage—from fiddling and step dancing to tales of priests, lumberman, and Orange and Green rivalries—is explored in this book through the voices of Valley people themselves. The author reveals the importance of place and history in the transmission of this vibrant regional culture down to the present day.
Download or read book The Road Home written by Steven Evans and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1992 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Opeongo Line written by Thomas Godfrey Devine and published by . This book was released on 191? with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Me n Len written by Richard Pope and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Me n Len is a warm and humourously nostalgic look back at life in the backwoods of Ontario in the "good old days." The setting is the rural area of eastern Haliburton, Ontario, in the decades before the chainsaw and the outboard motor became the common sounds in this beautiful region of central Canada. The main character is a grizzled and lovable 82-year-old trapper and woodsman named Len who takes the reader through the adventures in his memory to meet the people of his past. The stories he tells and the way he tells them are often funny, sometimes poignant, but always filled with an unforgettable down-to-earth philosophy.
Download or read book Down the Unmarked Roads written by Joan Finnigan and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Life in Upper Canada written by Edwin C. Guillet and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1933-12-15 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there were abundant hardships, early life in Upper Canada was romantic and colourful in many ways. However, despite important contributions to the social and economic history of Canada, few good, comprehensive accounts have been generally available. Early Life in Upper Canada, originally published in 1933, is by far the finest history yet compiled, and it is now being reprinted in order to make available to a new generation an important and engrossing description of this area of Canadian history. The author, a distinguished Canadian historian, has drawn on contemporary letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals, as well as consulting all the existing histories, and he has supplemented these researches with interviews with persons who had personal contacts with early life in the Province. Mr. Guillet has compiled a thorough, accurate and delightfully readable history, that brings vividly to life the early settlers and their experiences. This is in accordance with the author's profound desire to make the study of Canadian history a delight rather than a chore. He has not concealed the unpleasant aspects of pioneer life, nor does he attempt to glamorize its difficulties. There is a tendency at times to forget that the founders of Upper Canada include hundreds of thousands of men and women of many nationalities, and fur traders, lumbermen, and voyageurs, as well as settlers. Their contributions, too, are acknowledged and recorded here. This book is profusely illustrated, with drawings made, in many cases, by army cartographers, who were skilled creative artists as well. Their paintings, fortunately, have been better preserved than were written accounts of the times, and are accurate depictions of pioneer life. The extensive bibliography and carefully prepared index will make this work invaluable for historians as well as for general readers.
Download or read book Canadian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tallying the Tales of the Old timers written by Joan Finnigan and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leisure Myths and Mythmaking written by Brett Lashua and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often less so—that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared social reality. We see myth as having an “absent presence” in leisure studies, and want to know what myths are, what they do, and how they circulate and shape people’s leisure lives. Myths can do more than obfuscate; they often animate people’s lives, motivate collective action, and inspire change. As the chapters in this edited volume explore in further detail, leisure myths and mythmaking involve complex relations in the gaps between reality and imagination—from the shared myths of musical legends to myths of placemaking and communities, as well as from origin myths of sport practices to fantasy and festivals, to the importance of storytelling as mythmaking in tourism. In different ways, each of these chapters alerts the readers to the “absent presence” of myths and mythmaking in leisure research. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.
Download or read book The Progress of Love written by Alice Munro and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the ease and mastery that have won extraordinary acclaim for her writing, these eleven stories by Alice Munro explore the most intimate and transforming moments of experience—moments when the shape of life is set, moments of realization about the burden, the power, and the nature of love. A divorced woman returns to her childhood home where she confronts the memory of her parents’ confounding yet deep bond. The accidental near-drowning of a child exposes the fragility of the trust between children and parents. A young man, remembering a terrifying childhood incident, wrestles with the responsibility he has always felt for his younger brother. In these and other stories Alice Munro proves once again a sensitive and compassionate chronicler of our times. Drawing us into the most intimate corners of ordinary lives, she reveals much about ourselves, our choices, and our experiences of love.
Download or read book Nine Bells for a Man written by Peter Unwin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Robert Pachal crosses Canada by train with his brotherinlaw's coffin, bearing witness to a way of life that will never be seen again. When he arrives in Barry's Bay, he unwittingly sets in motion one of the final and most tragic events in pioneer Canada.
Download or read book Life Along the Opeongo Line written by Joan Finnigan and published by [Manotick, Ont.] : Penumbra Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Along the Opeongo Line is a carefully researched and richly entertaining social history of this unique Canadian heritage settlement road running from Farrrell's Landing below Renfrew on the Ottawa River to Bark Lake near Barry's Bay in the Algonquin Park region of Ontario. During the nineteenth century, the Canadian government set forth a policy to settle the hinterland of the province, surveying roads through the wilderness, recruiting immigrants with promises of resource-rich land for farming. Perhaps the most rugged of these colonization roads was the Opeongo Line. While the early settlers may not have found great wealth in farming on the rocky Canadian Shield, they faced the challenges of pioneer life with wit and wisdom, leaving behind a legacy of wonderful stories, told in the distinctive Ottawa Valley style that has become world-famous. Featured in Life Along the Opeongo Line are the original diaries of surveyor Hamlet Burritt; Crown Land Agent T.P. French's "Tract for Intending Settlers," written to entice immigrants; and scores of tales told by descendants of the first settlers, Irish, Scots, Germans, Poles, and Canadiens. Celebrated storytellers Dr. Jeremiah Bigsby, Charles Thomas, Tom Murray, Johnny Kielly, Father Tom Hunt, and Jenny Yuill tell tales of Opeongo legends Alexander MacDonnell, The Last Laird, Archibald McNab, J.R. Booth, Taddy Hagerty, and others, who once lived larger-than-life in such thriving villages and towns as Castleford, Second Chute (Renfrew), Dacre, Esmonde, Clontarf, Brudenell, Balaclava, Rockingham, Mount St. Patrick, Newfoundout, Wilno, and Barry's Bay. The book is fully illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs capturing the beauty of the rugged Opeongo landscape and the sturdy log houses and barns erected by the early settlers.
Download or read book Nature s Year written by Drew Monkman and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever your interest may be, this month-by-month guide to the key natural events in Central and Eastern Ontario will let you know exactly what’s happening — and it’s often in your own backyard. Nature’s Year is an almanac of key events in nature occurring in Central and Eastern Ontario, a region that extends from the Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay in the west to Ottawa and Cornwall in the east. The book is a chronicle of the passing seasons designed to inform cottagers, gardeners, photographers, suburban backyard birders, and nature enthusiasts alike as to what events in nature to expect each month of the year. Whatever your interest may be — birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, invertebrates, plants, fungi, weather, or the night sky — just turn to a given month and you’ll find a list of what’s happening, often right in your own backyard. This book will also provide a reassuring measure of order and predictability to nature and help the reader become more attentive to and appreciative of the many wonders of the natural world that surround us in this exceptional region of Ontario.
