Canoe Country
The Making of Canada
One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.
From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country is Roy MacGregor's celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadians have with our first and still favourite means of getting around. Famous paddlers have been so enchanted with the canoe that one swore God made Canada as the perfect country in which to…
$24.00
May 10, 2016
Roy MacGregor is the acclaimed and bestselling author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award); A Life in the Bush (winner of the U.S. Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People, as well as two novels, Canoe Lake and The Last Season, and the popular Screech Owls mystery series for young readers. A regular columnist at The Globe and Mail since 2002, MacGregor's journalism has garnered four National Magazine Awards and eight National Newspaper Award nominations. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was described in the citation as one of Canada's "most gifted storytellers."…
Paper Trails
Roy MacGregor
Original Highways
Roy MacGregor
The Colour of Canada
Photographs by All Canada Photos; Introduction by Roy MacGregor
Canoe Country
Roy MacGregor
The Home Team
Roy MacGregor
A Life in the Bush
Roy MacGregor
Reality Check in Detroit
Roy MacGregor
The Boston Breakout
Roy MacGregor
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Al Strachan, Foreword by Roy MacGregor
The Mystery of the Russian Ransom
Roy MacGregor
The Highest Number in the World
Roy MacGregor; illustrated by Geneviève Després
Panic in Pittsburgh
Roy MacGregor
Peril at the World's Biggest Hockey Tournament
Roy MacGregor
The Ghost of the Stanley Cup
Roy MacGregor
All Roads Home
Bryan Trottier
Dreamer
Nazem Kadri with Dan Robson
Life in Two Worlds
Ted Nolan with Meg Masters
Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her
R. Renee Hess
Iron Mike
Mike Keenan and Scott Morrison Foreword by Mark Messier
The Beautiful Dream
Atiba Hutchinson with Dan Robson
Undisputed
Donovan Bailey
The Awesome Game
Dave Hill
Playing the Long Game
Christine Sinclair with Stephen Brunt
All In
Billie Jean King with Johnette Howard and Maryanne Vollers
Over the Boards
Hayley Wickenheiser
One Game at a Time
Harnarayan Singh
Call Me Indian
Fred Sasakamoose with Foreword by Bryan Trottier
The Series
Ken Dryden
Catch 22
Rick Vaive with Scott Morrison
Dominion
Stephen R. Bown
A Nation's Paper
Edited by John Ibbitson
The Class
Ken Dryden
The Good Allies
Tim Cook
Lytton
Peter Edwards and Kevin Loring
The North Star
Julian Sher
Rogers v. Rogers
Alexandra Posadzki
The Duel
John Ibbitson
Kinauvit?
Norma Dunning
True North Rising
Whit Fraser
Above the Fold
John Honderich
The Series
Ken Dryden
The Devil's Trick
John Boyko
The Company
Stephen R. Bown