Canadiana Includes bibliographical references SPL: Canadiana
Contents:
Captured by the Iroquois (from The Explorations by Pierre-Esprit Radisson) Sword swallowing on the tundra (from A Journey to the Northern Ocean by Samuel Hearne) Nootka customs (from Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings by John Jewitt) A backwoods house-raising (from The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill) Uncle Joe and his family (from Roughing it in the Bush by Susanna Moodie) An ocean of grass (from The Great Lone Land by William Francis Butler) Bingo (from Wild Animals I have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton) Bathed in bliss (from Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Maurice Bucke) We have no knives (from My Life with the Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson) Jelly Roll and me (from Pilgrims of the Wild by Grey Owl) D'Sonoqua (from Klee Wyck by Emily Carr) June (from A River Never Sleeps by Roderick Haig-Brown) The first of July, 1867 (from John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician by Donald Creighton) A night crawl in Winnipeg (from Canada Made Me by Norman Levine) In search of Whitemud (from Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner) An evening with James Joyce (from That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan) The Diefenbaker Philosophy (from Renegade in Power by Peter C. Newman) Before we were famous (from Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco) Norway House (from Reservations Are For Indians by Heather Robertson) Craigellachie (from The Last Spike by Pierre Berton) Breaking prairie sod (from Homesteader by James M. Minifie) Shelter from the storm (from Death on the Ice by Cassie Brown) Canlit crash course (from Survival by Margaret Atwood) The impulse of savagery (from A Whale For the Killing by Farley Mowat) Two solitudes (from Halfbreed by Maria Campbell) Ossification of native society (from Prison of Grass by Howard Adams) Hunger march to Edmonton (from Lily Briscoe: A Self-portrait by Mary Meigs) Maps of dreams (from Maps and Dreams by Hugh Brody) Tropical gossip and kegalle (from Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje) Backyard ball hockey (from The Game by Ken Dryden) Life in a new language (from Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman) Fire (from The Danger Tree by David Macfarlane)
