Reference

My Cross-country Checkup: Across Canada by Minivan, Through Space and Time

Walter Stewart first travelled across the Trans-Canada Highway in 1964, for a series of stories in the Star Weekly. In My Cross-Country Checkup, Stewart and his wife, Joan – dryly referred to as “The Driver” ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec

By Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe writes lively, information-packed travel articles, several of which have been folded into Sacré Blues, his lively, information-packed book on Quebec. (The B.C.-raised author settled there on returning to Canada from France four years ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Romantic Getaways in Atlantic Canada and Beyond

By Susan Randles,Dave Stephens

If romance is to survive in a relationship, it needs to be valued and nurtured. Getting away from it all – the job, the kids, the unmowed lawn – may be just what is needed ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Canadian Crime Fiction

By David Skene-Melvin

Canadian Crime Fiction is a massive bibliography of Canadian crime writing compiled by David Skene-Melvin, assisted by Norbery Spehner, whose earlier work (written with Yvon Allard), Ecrits sur le roman policier, Bibliographie (Collection Paralitté-ratures, Le ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Ultimate Hockey Trivia

By Don Weekes and Kerry Banks

TV producer and writer Don Weekes and Kerry Banks, recipient of the 1995 National Magazine Award for Sportswriting, have teamed up to produce Ultimate Hockey Trivia, a compendium for the enthusiast and ephemera aficionado alike. ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Pig and the Python: How to Prosper from the Aging Baby Boom

By David Cork with Susan Lightstone

The Pig and the Python is a fictionalized guide to investment advice that aims to emulate the folksy down-home style of The Wealthy Barber. Taking the effects of the baby-boomer bulge on consumer trends as ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Best of Pape’s Notes: Fifteen Years of Sound Financial Advice

By Gordon Pape

Every year the market is flooded with investment books that tell you how to make your first million on the stock market and retire in comfort. But does anyone really get rich from reading these ... Read More »

March 4, 2004 | Filed under: Reference