Welcome Home 10th Anniversary Edition: Travels In Smalltown Canada
by Stuart McLean
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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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 show more wasn't sure what I'd think. Now I know - Stuart McLean could re-write the phone book and I'd enjoy reading it. show less
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 show more wasn't sure what I'd think. Now I know - Stuart McLean could re-write the phone book and I'd enjoy reading it. show less
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.
Stories that read like you'd like to hear them. Hallmarky at time certainly, but not untrue.
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Andrew Stuart McLean was born in Montreal, Canada on April 19, 1948. He received a bachelor's degree from Sir George Williams University in 1971. He moved into radio broadcasting after managing a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist's successful campaign for the Montreal City Council. His early career involved producing documentaries for show more Sunday Morning, a current affairs program on the CBC's main English radio network. He was best known for his long-running weekly variety radio show The Vinyl Café. The show was first broadcast in the summer of 1994 and stopped production in late 2015 because of his cancer diagnosis. He wrote 11 books of stories from the program and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times. He taught journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto for 20 years. He died on February 15, 2017 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1992
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- Canada
- Original language
- English
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