Volume 7 # 48| Past Issues

Day Brighteners Tribute to Pierre Berton “The country was in love with itself. The country was on a roll. The Centennial had everyone excited. Expo attracted everyone's attention -- something Canada doesn't do very often. There were the hippies ... full employment ... and attitudes were changing toward sex, abortion, women, aboriginal peoples, homosexuals ... all our values were shifting. It's the last time we took our unity for granted.” ~1967: The Last Good Year (1997) “This is more than an anthology. It is a resurrection. The various pieces that follow--essays, articles, bits of history, chapters from out-of-print books, the occasional verse, a stage sketch or two--were written over a period of fifty years. All have long since been interred in the graveyard of dead manuscripts; gone, yes--but hopefully not forgotten, at least by me." ~Worth Repeating (1999) “The Russians were the first on the river, in 1834, but they cared not a hoot for gold; no more than the natives who had given the river its name of Yukon, meaning “The Greatest.”” ~Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899 (1958) A magnificent natural wonder and a magnet for industry, adventurers, daredevils and honeymooners, Niagara Falls is an ideal subject for Pierre Berton's informal style of Canadian history. ~Niagara: History of the Falls (1993) Pierre Berton captures the decade of the 1870s as he shows the political struggles of the brand new nation of Canada to create the world's longest railroad across empty country. ~The National Dream (1970) The second part in the story of building the Canadian Pacific Railway which was key to the development of Canada as a nation. Pierre Berton recounts the extraordinary history of laying 2000 miles of rail in five years, and the characters who made it possible. ~The Last Spike (1971) Pierre Berton is at his most vibrant when writing about the fortune hunters of the Klondike Gold Rush. The stories of risk-takers and dreamers who braved the terrain and climate are essential to understanding Canadian and U.S. history. Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush Thank you, Pierre Berton. (July 1920—November 2004)

 

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