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DeMont, John, 1956-
Subjects
Labor -- Canada -- History.
Occupations -- Canada -- History.
Work -- Canada -- History.
Professions -- Canada -- History.
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DeMont, John, 1956-
Labor -- Canada -- History.
Occupations -- Canada -- History.
Work -- Canada -- History.
Professions -- Canada -- History.
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A good day's work : in pursuit of a disappearing
Canada
/ John DeMont.
by
DeMont, John, 1956-
Doubleday Canada, 2013.
Call #:
331.0971 D384g
Subjects
Labor
--
Canada
--
History
.
Occupations
--
Canada
--
History
.
Work
--
Canada
--
History
.
Professions
--
Canada
--
History
.
ISBN:
9780385665063 (hc.)
Description:
304 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"A lyrical journey through a semi-mythological place: the
Canada
of our imagination. It is the
Canada
of the day before yesterday. Or perhaps the
Canada
of 1967
--
the country's "Last Good Year," as Pierre Berton dubbed it. It is a portrait of
Canada
captured by way of encounters with a blacksmith, a cowgirl, a milkman, a traveling salesman and other custodians of trades from another time. Woven into the always engaging, sometimes strange, sometimes moving and frequently funny interviews are the ruminations and personal reflections of that wonderful writer John DeMont (who as a newspaper reporter and columnist of a certain age is something of a vanishing tradesman himself). The iconic Canada--the country of close-knit small towns, of common geography and
history
, of meaningful work and communal values and institutions--is being transformed. John DeMont has gone in search of people who make their living the old way, in an attempt to distill the essence of our shared past"--Provided by publisher.
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