Memoir & Biography

Freetown Ambush: A Reporter’s Year in Africa

Most journalists are willing to endure the sacrifices of the job – mediocre pay, deadline stress, intrusions into personal life among them – because they adore being a conduit between events and the public. Foreign ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Pilgrim in Ireland: A Quest for Home

By Frances Greenslade

A Pilgrim in Ireland begins with Regina writer Frances Greenslade’s participation in a traditional Sto:lo autumn equinox gathering in the coastal mountains of B.C. “The ancestors are close,” she muses before realizing, jarringly, “Not my ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-life Journey into Wild Land

By Jill Frayne

It’s a wonder that Starting Out in the Afternoon, a set of diary entries about working through a mid-life crisis in the north country, ever got published. Creative writing instructors the world over rightfully warn ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life

By Barbara McLean

Twenty-six years ago, Barbara McLean, the young wife of a country doctor-to-be, set out with her husband for a hardscrabble, decrepit farmstead in Grey County, Ontario. The couple were complete beginners to farming, and while ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman’s Life in Nova Scotia

By Verna Thomas

Invisible Shadows takes readers on an intimate walk through one of Canada’s oldest and largest black communities: Preston, Nova Scotia. Author Verna Thomas, born in 1935, mother of seven, and long active within the Baptist ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Foreign Bones in China: Memoirs of Imperialism and Its Ending

By Peter Stursberg

Effective tour guides to that other country – the past – generally share two attributes: top-notch research skills and imagination. Longtime journalist Peter Stursberg’s strong investigative skills are evident throughout his account of his ancestor’s ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

By Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary

Pioneering science fiction author and political activist Judith Merril was not one to mince words or follow convention, so it’s no surprise that she bluntly states in her introduction to Better to Have Loved that ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Seldom

By Dawn Rae Downton

Anybody expecting the quaint, feel-good Newfoundland of E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is bound for a surprise in Dawn Rae Downton’s memoir of early 20th-century Newfoundland. Life is a whole lot tougher in this ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Diary Between Friends

By Government of Canada, ed.

The idea of creating a scrapbook of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may seem like a morbid idea at first, but with more media coverage than almost any event in world history, the urge to ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat

By Keath Fraser

Keath Fraser’s voice was a choppy, strangulated, and unintelligible mess. Told for years that his mysterious ailment was psychological, he searched in vain for some inner failing that could explain his affliction. The Vancouver novelist ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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