One Track Mind: Photographic Essays on Western Railroading

For the past 30 years photographer Ted Benson has been documenting the beauty and travails of western railroads. From coal freighters in the Sierra Nevada to the final run of the California Zephyr, Benson and ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Who Wrote the Book of Love?: The Stories Behind the Hits

By Richard Crouse

Two new books on the inner workings of popular music are as different as AM and FM ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock

By Dave Bidini

Two new books on the inner workings of popular music are as different as AM and FM ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

★ Odysseys: Meditations and Thoughts for a Life’s Journey

By Freeman Patterson

Multi-talented Freeman Patterson’s latest collection of photos, taken in an abandoned diamond mining town in Namibia, Africa, is sheer magic. The subtle shades of golden images of sand, walls, and open doorways in Odysseys: Meditations ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Light on the Water: Early Photography of Coastal British Columbia

By Keith McLaren

Keith McLaren is a captain for the B.C. Ferry Corporation and has spent most of his working life at sea on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Light on the Water is his visual tribute to ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art

By Gerald McMaster, ed.

You won’t find Reservation X on a map, yet it is a place that aboriginal people must inhabit in the contemporary (colonial) world. It is that changing space between city and reserve, between contemporary and ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Safari

By Robert Bateman and Rick Archbold

Robert Bateman has earned an international name for himself as an artistic, distinctly realistic chronicler of Canadian wildlife. But he has also made many trips to Africa, and Safari is the result of his life-long ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Journey to the Source of the Nile

By Christopher Ondaatje

Christopher Ondaatje, former stockbroker and investment banker, continues to be consumed by Africa. His earlier book, Leopard in the Afternoon, grew out of a trip there in the late 1980s in search of the leopard. ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Harmony: Photographic Journeys Across Our Cultural Boundaries

By National Movement for Harmony

More often than not, books that claim to cover Canada from coast-to-coast appear as thinly veiled tourism brochures or unity propaganda. Thankfully, Harmony: Photographic Journeys Across Our Cultural Boundaries is neither. Marrying the images of ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Canvas of War: Painting the Canadian Experience, 1914 to 1945

By Jack Granatstein

In the foreword to Canvas of War: Painting the Canadian Experience, 1914 to 1945 historian Jack Granatstein writes that the Canadian War Museum holds in excess of 13,000 art works. Over 100 of these have ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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One Track Mind: Photographic Essays on Western Railroading

Who Wrote the Book of Love?: The Stories Behind the Hits

On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock

★ Odysseys: Meditations and Thoughts for a Life’s Journey

Light on the Water: Early Photography of Coastal British Columbia

Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art

Safari

Journey to the Source of the Nile

Harmony: Photographic Journeys Across Our Cultural Boundaries

Canvas of War: Painting the Canadian Experience, 1914 to 1945

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