Night We Stole The Mounties Car

Author : Max Braithwaite
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996499
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night We Stole the Mounties' Car written by Max Braithwaite and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists. All these qualities are present in his latest bittersweet recollections of life on the Prairies during the early Thirties. It was a time of depression and drought; but for Max, a young schoolteacher, it was also a time for courtship and marriage, for those hilarious episodes in Wannego, Saskatchewan, which did much to belie the grimness of the era. There was Max’s disastrous umpiring of a Ladies’ Softball game; his writing and directing of a play that generated more drama off-stage than on; the awful problem of the wasps at the outhouse, and much, much, more. The Night We Stole the Mountie’s Car follows Never Sleep Three in a Bed and Why Shoot the Teacher? and completes the story of Max’s early years. It is also Braithwaite at his vintage best – lusty, thought-provoking, and consistently amusing.

Author : Max Braithwaite
Publisher : CNIB, [197-]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car written by Max Braithwaite and published by CNIB, [197-]. This book was released on 1975 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 0888820739
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Literary Landmarks written by John Robert Colombo and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Literary Landmarks

Author : Max Braithwaite
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996529
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Shoot the Teacher written by Max Braithwaite and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Saskatchewan prairies during the Depression, Why Shoot the Teacher is the Canadian classic that tells the story of a young man’s first collision with reality: an ill-paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school. This autobiographical novel is riotous, grim, candid, and infinitely entertaining. While it is perhaps Braithwaite’s best-loved book, it is also a vivid evocation of the Dust Bowl desolation wrought by the “Dirty Thirties” on the Saskatchewan Prairies, the ordeal of youth among a people bereft of pity and charity, and the human compassion that adds warmth and poignancy to an unforgettable story.

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Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lawmen in Scarlet written by and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides author biographies, publication data and plot summaries for some 500 fictional works featuring the Mounties, and plot summaries, casts, and credits for about 225 films. Also includes comic books, comic strips, TV and radio shows, operas, stage dramas, and musicals. Some bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Max Braithwaite
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Max, the Best of Braithwaite written by Max Braithwaite and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If "Why Shoot the Teacher," "Never Sleep Three in a Bed," and "The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car" made you smile, chuckle, and laugh out loud, then here (as the man said) is just the book for you! Yes, Max is back! And Braithwaite fans, along with anyone who reads for the warm companionship of a good laugh and some delightful insight, need look no further. Here is Max's Book of Books - the wit and wisdom of a forty-year career that has won the author hundreds of thousands of book-reading and movie-going fans, and a Stephen Leacock Award for Humour as well. Here is Braithwaite on growing up on the prairies in the twenties and thirties, on the growing pains associated with raising children of your own, on Ontario, where he now lives, on himself, and on his writing career. Each fiction and non-fiction piece in this colourful collection is prefaced by the author with a short introduction dealing with the work itself and the author's own feelings about it. Together, these personal observations provide a warm and insightful look at one man's career and personal life throughout a lifetime of writing for and about Canadians. "Max: The Best of Braithwaite" brings together all the places, times, and faces - pensive, nostalgic, humorous - that Braithwaite fans have come to expect and love. Max"imum" Braithwaite indeed!

Author : James A. "Pete" McGarvey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770700757
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Brewery Bay written by James A. "Pete" McGarvey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1994-01-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we have the personal account of the misadventures that preceded the opening to the public of the Leacock home in 1958. Forty years ago, in October 1954, a committee was formed, chaired by Pete McGarvey, to acquire and preserve Stephen Leacock’s summer home, known as The Old Brewery Bay. Four years later a golden key opened the front door of the home, allowing Leacock fans to pay homage to the humorist in a setting he had prized above every other. As the years have passed, appreciation of Leacock’s genius has grown and today the Leacock Museum is open year-round to visitors from all parts of the globe. The Old Brewery Bay is a Leacockian yarn full of ironies, the greatest one being that the salvation of Leacock’s home was accomplished not by a national campaign involving governments, philanthropists, McGill alumni, and foundations (all of whom were approached in a spirit of urgency and all of whom backed away), but by a gang of naive and stubborn Orillians, using old-fashioned political moxie. Leacock would have loved that - his Mariposans showing the big sophisticated world how to get things done.

Author : Hugh Aylmer Dempsey
Publisher : Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta : McClelland and Stewart West
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men in Scarlet written by Hugh Aylmer Dempsey and published by Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta : McClelland and Stewart West. This book was released on 1974 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Walden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Order written by Keith Walden and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Broadcasting, Films and Assistance to the Arts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Broadcasting, Films and Assistance to the Arts and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: