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W.O. Mitchell's "Jake & The Kid" captivated radio audiences in the days before television and enjoyed ratings that rivalled those for the radio broadcasts of the CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada." These homespun tales about the hired hand, Jake Trumper and his sidekick, The Kid, explored very human stories about life on the often cruel Prairies of Saskatchewan in a humorous vein that made a household name for the series across the breadth of Canada. Although he wrote many novels, most notably " Who Has Seen the Wind," featured during the ceremonies at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Mitchell was as well known for these folksy plays. They enabled him to hone his writing craft in a mass medium, when few other outlets were available; to tackle social issues of the day with a light hand, and to develop many of the themes he would explore in his later novels. This study analyzes these popular radio plays, their Prairie and literary roots, the production process and their contribution and critical reception. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Guy Gavriel Kay, W. O. Mitchell, Pat Binns, Tiger Williams, Shirley Douglas, Graham Delaet, Neil Cameron, Larry Giroux, Laurie Montgomery, Ted Hargreaves, John Saywell, Rene Chapdelaine, Barry Chase, Brendon Labatte, Allen Rae, Jim Mctaggart, Mark Steven Morton. Excerpt:Allen Rae (born December 26, 1932 in Weyburn , Saskatchewan , Canada ) is a retired Canadian basketball referee. He refereed in the 1964 Olympics, 1968 Olympics, 1972 Olympics (including a semi-final game in each of those) and 1976 Olympics. He also refereed the final of the 1975 European Championship. He was the Technical Commissioner in 1984 Olympics, 1988 Olympics, 1992 Olympics, 1990 World Championship and 1983 Pan American Games. From 1984 to 1994, he served as Vice President of the Technical Commission of the FIBA . He is the President of the Dr. James Naismith Basketball Foundation ... Read more

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These studies of Canadian authors fulfill a real need in the study of Canadian literature. Each monograph is a separately bound study of about 55 pages. Each contains a biography of the author, a description of the tradition and milieu that influenced the author, a survey of the criticism on the author, a comprehensive essay on all the author's key works, and a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary works. ... Read more

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Chapters: Guy Gavriel Kay, W. O. Mitchell, Anne Szumigalski, Douglas Hill, Ross King, Maria Campbell, Allan Fotheringham, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Savella Stechishin, Douglas Wilson, Harvey Oberfeld, Edith Fowke, Elliott Leyton, Hilda Neatby, Ven Begamudré, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Sinclair Ross, Eli Mandel, Charles Mair, Gail Bowen, Cora Taylor, Freda Ahenakew, C. P. Lyons, Erika Ritter, Ralph Allen, Janice Acoose, Sandra Birdsell, Linda Aksomitis, L. R. Wright, Howard Adams, Arthur Slade, Gayleen Froese, Bill Waiser, Karen Solie, Marjorie Harris, Djanet Sears, Joy Coghill, Glenda Goertzen, Leslie Hall Pinder, Joanna Glass, Dennis Cooley, Lee Gowan, Anthony Bidulka, Michael Helm, Natalie Fruman, Gail Robinson, Mark Steven Morton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anne Szumigalski, SOM (3 January 1922 22 April 1999) was a Canadian poet. She was born Anne Howard Davies in London, England, and grew up mostly in a Hampshire village. She served with the Red Cross as a medical auxiliary officer and interpreter during World War II, following British Army forces in 1944-5 across parts of newly liberated Europe. In 1946, she married Jan Szumigalski, (d. 1985) a former officer in the Polish Army, and lived with him in north Wales before immigrating to Canada in 1951. They had four children: Kate (born 1946), Elizabeth (1947), Tony (1961) and Mark (1963). She spent the rest of her life in Saskatchewan, first in the remote Big Muddy valley, then in Saskatoon. Most of her fifteen books are collections of poetry, but she also wrote a memoir, The Voice, the Word, the Text (1990) as well as Z., a play about the Holocaust. Her first book, Woman Reading in Bath (1974), was published by Doubleday in New York. Thereafter she made the deliberate choice to publish her work wi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2236118 ... Read more

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Chapters: Marshall Mcluhan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Harry Seidler, W. O. Mitchell, Di Brandt, Michael Scheuer, Edward Schreyer, Dan Vandal, Steven Fletcher, Sam Katz, Louis Slotin, Greg Selinger, Leonard Peikoff, Thomas Glendenning Hamilton, Erving Goffman, Barry Chamish, Jerry Fontaine, S. I. Hayakawa, David Iftody, Andrew Swan, Gary Filmon, Monty Hall, Michael Persinger, Richard Condie, Dufferin Roblin, Daniel Yanofsky, Sidney Green, David Kilgour, Lyn Mcleod, Marshall Rothstein, Brian Talboys, Saul Cherniack, Grant Jacobsen, Raymond A. Price, George Johnson, Gordon Churchill, Errick Willis, Al Mackling, Norman Cantor, Samuel Freedman, John Thompson, Stan Roberts, Brian Dickson, Richard A. N. Bonnycastle, John Dick, Ray Henault, Gildas Molgat, Izzy Asper, Stuart Garson, Ross Mclean, Rob Altemeyer, Jim Peebles, Anita Neville, James Alexander Calder, Graham Steele, Phil Fontaine, Mitchell Sharp, Peter A. Stewart, List of University of Manitoba Alumni, Samuel Epstein, David Matas, Jack Pickersgill, Russell Doern, Frank Pickersgill, Mark Smerchanski, Miriam Toews, Hugo Mcpherson, Nathan Divinsky, Heath Macquarrie, Alan Lowe, Victor Hubert Tait, Raymond Simard, Bernard Ostry, Leo Yaffe, George R. D. Goulet, Francis Lawrence Jobin, Ovide Mercredi, Bill Unruh, Donald John Roberts, David Dreman, Robert Bend, Stewart Mccrae, John Hubert Craigie, John Plohman, Patrick Lau Sau-Shing, Henry Duckworth, Christopher Causton, Allan Eastman, Marcel Dzama, Vaughan L. Baird, Dan Mcivor, Henry Douglas, Frank Wesbrook, Arnold Naimark, Cornelius Wiebe, Peter Herrndorf, Adele Wiseman, Charles Huband, Ben Hanuschak, Herman Mcinnes, John Thomas Haig, Brian Wowk, Richard Kroft, Nathan Nurgitz, Donald Mcniven, Reza Iravani, Ed Evanko, James Coyne, Anton Weselak, Brenda Leipsic, David Scheffel, Warren Winkler, Kimberly Prost, Arnold Heeney, Samuel Pritchard Matheson, James Fisher, Sydney Halter, Harry Medovy, Harold J Brodie, Howard Waldemar Winkler, Simma H...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19548 ... Read more

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Chapters: Joe Clark, Kristi Yamaguchi, W. O. Mitchell, Roland Michener, Preston Manning, David Emerson, Jim Prentice, Mike Hudema, Gerard Kennedy, Paul Gross, Pat Binns, Rona Ambrose, Jan Reimer, George Elliott Clarke, George Stanley, Dan Backs, Piers Nash, Laurence Decore, Terry Eastwood, Peter Tertzakian, Kevin Taft, Ivor Dent, Paul Hinman, Beresford Richards, Darrell Rankin, Niall Shanks, Tim Hague, Harry Dean Ainlay, Beverley Mclachlin, Richard Mouw, Larry Shaben, Dayo Wong, Rollie Miles, Bas Van Fraassen, Kent Simpson, Elaine Bernard, Don Iveson, Catherine Chichak, Deborah Grey, Charles Stuart, Rob Anderson, Richard E. Taylor, Lou Hyndman, Grant Devine, Vincent Dantzer, Cam Kirby, Maria Klawe, Susan Nattrass, Merv Leitch, Greg Edmonson, Alexander B. Morrison, Raymond Lemieux, Francis John Blatherwick, Jane Alexander, Daryl Katz, Gwen Pharis Ringwood, Allan Wachowich, Claire Martin, Charles R. Stelck, John Mcclung, Carl Safran, Joseph B. Martin, Dale C. Thomson, Doris Anderson, Darrel R. Falk, Kenneth Paproski, Michael Senych, Danny Dorosh, William Thorsell, Tim Uppal, Mike Lake, Eric Allan Kramer, Michael Mcmanus, Ivan Head, Richard Haskayne, Gerry Gibeault, Ronald Martland, Keith Penner, Dave Fennell, Thomas Rockwell Mackie, Brian Evans, Charles Leonard Huskins, Gary Mar, Padma Viswanathan, Hu Harries, J. Alan George, Don G. Despain, Leonard Brockington, Arthur Kroeger, Joyce Fairbairn, Norah Sharpe Stone, Jack Flaherty, Rollie Cook, Colby Cosh, William Stevenson, Darin Nesbitt, Mike Nickel, Robert Folinsbee, Guy Big, Murray Campbell, David Thomas King, C. Fred Bentley, Mike de Jong, Monty Reid, Keith O'nions, Ron Ghitter, Catherine Fraser, Reginald Bibby, Pat Kiernan, Bobby J. Villeneuve, Charles Dent, Fred Whitman, Jim Coutts, Neil Campbell, Morris Shumiatcher, Allan Markin, Laura Safran, Sheila Embury, Peter Hochachka, Su Guaning, Margaret Fairley, William Cameron Rutherford, Simon Lau, John Charles Alexander Cameron...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63405 ... Read more