Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives

By Peter Unwin

An amusing collection of lives and stories from the eccentric side of Canada's history.

A joyous romp through the back pages of Canadian quirkiness, Canadian Folk provides a fresh look at the saints, sinners, oddballs, and outright nutbars who have populated the Canadian landscape.

They were perpetually northbound or south; they were inveterate walkers, or world class runners, millionaires in ill-advised Citroen half-tracks. The restless characters who spanned those miles and who fill the pages of this book were fuelled by the ambitions, the doubts, and the certainties of their times, a certainty that now seems unfathomable to us and frequently maddening. From doomed explorers to celebrated poets of cheese, this collection provides a fascinating look at the eminent and no-so-eminent characters who came before us and left their colourful mark on Canada's history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459710274
• ISBN13: 9781459710276
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"