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Loading... Welcome home: Travels in smalltown Canada (original 1992; edition 1992)by Stuart McLean
Work InformationWelcome Home 10th Anniversary Edition: Travels In Smalltown Canada by Stuart McLean (1992)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In this book, Stuart McLean decides to travel to various small towns in different parts of Canada and chronicle his experiences. Are small towns the same all across the country? Are there differences between French and English? Between the mountains and the prairies, east and west? McLean met many people from many walks of life. Along the way he found people who on the whole love their families, their communities, and their country. All done with the usual McLean humour. ( ) Every time I read Stuart McLean, it's like I can hear him reading to me in my head. Maybe I've just listened to too many of his shows on the radio... Welcome Home: Travels in Smalltown Canada is an interesting exploration of what small town life actually is, good and bad, and how it impacts the people who choose to live this way. The people he meets, the adventures he finds, and the stories he tells are enough to convince me that living in at least 5 of the places he profiles would be pretty fantastic. I am originally a smalltown girl who's now in the big city, and he really makes me miss it. This was the first of McLean's books that I've read that was non-fiction, and therefore didn't include Dave and Morley and the Vinyl Cafe. I wasn't sure what I'd think. Now I know - Stuart McLean could re-write the phone book and I'd enjoy reading it. no reviews | add a review
Across thousands of miles, the Canadian population clusters like loosely strung beads on the thread of the 49th parallel. This is truly Canada--a vast stretch of land and a bounty of small towns. In Welcome Home, Stuart McLean takes us on a heartwarming journey from one coast to the other to visit these small yet vibrant places and meet their remarkable citizens. We visit Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, an old-fashioned "cow town"; Dresden, Ontario, once a destination for escaped slaves using the Underground Railroad; St-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec, where the worldÕs strongest man is buried; and Foxwarren, Manitoba, a quintessential hockey town. We wander along Main Street in Sackville, New Brunswick; explore Nakusp, B.C., which may have been the home of an illegitimate child of royalty; and watch the icebergs float by in Ferryland, Newfoundland. Each town Stuart visits tells us a little about Canada's rich and often forgotten history and a lot about who Canadians are today. With a storyteller's eye for detail and an effervescent sense of humour, Stuart McLean introduces us to seven truly wonderful places and dozens of extraordinary people. No library descriptions found. |
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