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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Cartier. Show all posts

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01 December 2014

Of Downton Abbey and Our Magnificent Folly

December. Time has come to admit that we've failed. Eleven months ago, with my friends Chris Kelly and Stanley Whyte, I set out to...

06 September 2014

George-Étienne Cartier at 200

Such a young country. I'm still kind of a kid – really – and yet I remember Canada's centennial celebrations . So, it makes n...

24 June 2012

'Ô Canada! mon pays! mes amours!'

Monument George-Étienne Cartier For la Fête de la St-Jean, George-Étienne Cartier's 'Ô Canada! mon pays! mes amours!...

24 June 2010

Encore!

Une deuxième chanson pour la fête de la St-Jean. Composed by George-Étienne Cartier, "Avant tout je suis canadien" follows his bet...

24 June 2009

A Song for la Fête de la St-Jean

A translation of 'Ô Canada! mon pays! mes amours!' , composed by the great George-Étienne Cartier , ninth president of the Société S...

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About Me

Brian Busby: A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.

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