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Please join us for the Montreal book launch next Tuesday, November 11th, for
ONWARD, DEAR BOYS: A Family Memoir of the Great War
By Philippe Bieler
“A fascinating book that weaves together letters and memoirs, Onward, Dear Boys is a poignant story of the experiences of war and its impact on a family of new Canadians … Read More >
Bill Brownstein, co-author of You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten, will be a featured speaker at the 2014 fall edition of Books & Breakfast this Sunday.
Join us next Tuesday for a Montreal launch celebrating Canadian authors!
When: Tuesday, November 4th, at 4:00 PM
Where: The McGill Faculty Club, 3rd floor Billiard Room
Gordon Darroch (editor of The Dawn of Canada’s Century), Michael Darroch (editor of Cartographies of Place), and Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, author of Polar Winds (Dundurn Press), will be speaking about … Read More >
Susan Schwartz wrote a feature in the Montreal Gazette on Second World War resistance figures Magda and André Trocmé, and their daughter Nelly Trocmé Hewett’s Montreal speaking events this month.
As mentioned in the Gazette article, Trocmé Hewett’s “presentation will include a short version of the award-winning 1989 documentary Weapons of the Spirit, made by … Read More >
Please join us for the upcoming book launch of
REIMAGINING CINEMA: The Films of Expo 67
Edited by Monika Kin Gagnon and Janine Marchessault
The launch, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, follows an afternoon symposium organized by CINEMAexpo67.
2:00 pm – Graeme Ferguson, IMAX-inventor and director of the original Polar Life, in conversation with Scott Mackenzie.
3:30 pm – Roundtable … Read More >
Brian Young, author of Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec, was on CTV Montreal earlier today discussing his new book on the Taschereaus and McCords with Mutsumi Takahashi.
History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations … Read More >
TOMORROW at 5PM: Come out to the vernissage for Polar Life, a multi-screen film installation at La Cinémathèque Québecoise curated by Monika Kin Gagnon, co-editor of the forthcoming release, Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67.
The installation, on display from October 9 – November 2, is a digital recreation of the original film by IMAX-inventer, Graeme Ferguson, which was showcased at … Read More >
All eyes are on the Scottish referendum today as Scots decide whether to stay in the UK or become an independent nation. A high turnout is expected and the results won’t be known until the early hours of Friday morning. The suspense until then resonates all too well with people in Quebec who remember the referendums of 1980 and 1995.
There’s an air … Read More >
SANDINO’S NATION BOOK LAUNCH
TOMORROW! September 16th
7:30 PM
The Bookshelf (Green Room), Guelph
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The University of Guelph International Development Speaker Series, in collaboration with MQUP and The Bookshelf, is delighted to host the book launch & lecture for Stephen Henighan’s
Sandino’s Nation: Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012
The Bookshelf … Read More >
John Dunning’s memoir, You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten, is getting lots of buzz leading up to the Toronto book launch at Ben McNally Books this Thursday! Quill & Quire gave the memoir a starred review:
The best filmmaker memoirs are the ones that feel like movies themselves, whether it’s the epic, melodramatic sweep … Read More >