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Heather Robertson was born in Winnipeg, Canada on March 19, 1942. She was a reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press in the 1960s and helped pave the way for women journalists to leave the "women's pages." Her first book, Reservations Are for Indians was published in 1970. She won the Books in Canada näytä lisää First Novel Award for Willie: A Romance and received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Magazine Awards Foundation in 2011. She also co-founded The Writers' Union of Canada. She died from cancer on March 19, 2014 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Robertson, Heather Margaret
Syntymäaika
1942-03-19
Kuolinaika
2014-03-19
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Canada
Syntymäpaikka
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Asuinpaikat
King City, Ontario, Canada
Koulutus
University of Manitoba
Columbia University
Ammatit
magazine editor
journalist
novelist
nonfiction writer
biographer
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Marshall, Andrew (husband)
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Writers' Union of Canada
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Heather Robertson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. After graduating from Kelvin High School, she completed an Honours BA in English at the University of Manitoba in 1962. She then earned a master's degree from Columbia University in New York City. Robertson began her journalism career at the Winnipeg Free Press, then moved to the Winnipeg Tribune. In the late 1960s, she received a grant to study native people; this research provided much of the material for her bestselling first book, Reservations Are for Indians, published in 1970. She published four more books in the 1970s, including Grass Roots, which profiled four modern prairie towns and the difficulties faced by farmers in Western Canada; Salt of the Earth; and A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War. In 1981, she chronicled the life of bank robber Ken Leishman in The Flying Bandit. In the 1980s, Robertson turned to writing fiction based on real-life characters, and won the Books in Canada Best First Novel Award for Willie: A Romance (1983). Two more novels followed: Lily: A Rhapsody in Red (1986) and Igor: A Novel of Intrigue (1989). Her last book, Walking Into Wilderness, won the inaugural Ontario Speaker of the Legislature Award in 2013. Throughout her writing career, Robertson was a prolific freelancer for the CBC and national magazines such as Maclean's, Chatelaine, Saturday Night, Canadian Forum and Equinox. She was a founding member of The Writers' Union of Canada and The Periodical Writers Association of Canada.

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This book was my pick for my August Canadian classic. It was written in 1971/72 so it is almost 35 years old. Robertson visited 5 prairie towns to discover what rural and farming life was like. Amazingly a lot of her comments apply today as much as they did then. The towns she writes about are Miami and Winkler in Manitoba and Moose Jaw, Bienfait and Biggar in Saskatchewan. I'm sure at the time the book came out many of the people in these towns were not very happy. She uncovers everything, warts and all. Her writing is terrific but I felt she often contradicted herself from one paragraph to the next. However, I enjoyed this book very much. She talks a lot about the decline of the family farm and all the people who left the rural life behind for life in the city. I have to confess to being one of them. In fact, in 1971 when she was researching this book I was starting University and I've never returned to my farming roots except for brief visits.

In the book Robertson talks about the loss of rural people in the 5 years ending in 1971. Saskatchewan lost 50,000 people, Alberta 25,000 and Manitoba 15,000. I was interested to see how the situation was now, more than 30 years later. Unfortunately, the trend continues. I found figures that showed that the number of farms in Manitoba in 1996 was 19545 but in 2001 that number had declined by 16% to 16,425. Similarly Saskatchewan had a decline of 15.3% (45585 to 38605) and Alberta farms reduced from 47,095 to 40,565 (13.9% less).
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This collection of paintings from the two world wars and the Korean war, contains some powerful images. Most of them are from the national gallery collection. Hopefully, we will get to see them on tour.
 
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Ecellent book if you want to find out what palliative patients and their families want and what is important to them. Contains some surprises!
 
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