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Forty Years in Canada

(2006)
A Memoir
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Jack Whyte is known worldwide for his books about Arthurian England. But before he was the Jack Whyte, he was a high-school English teacher and a professional singer, musician, actor and entertainer. Then a job writing for CBC national television steered him into an advertising career. Along the way, his "fervent preoccupation with the Arthurian legend" led him to write the series A Dream of Eagles/The Camulod Chronicles. This summer Penguin/Putnam will launch Knights of the Black and White, the first of Jack Whyte's new trilogy on the Knights Templar.

But there's more to Jack Whyte than work. He arrived in Canada in 1967 at the height of this nation's centennial celebrations. And what he found in Canada made him stay. The effervescent optimism about the coming 100 years in the richest and most gifted country in the western world. The textures and vibrancy of Canada: crunchy lettuce and tomatoes, 10-cent coffee, brilliant Prairie sunshine and the smells of summer; jackfish running in Calling Lake and moose carcasses hanging in the butcher shop; snow and cold continental winter with Hockey Night in Canada and Don Messer's Jubilee.

Jack Whyte: Forty Years in Canada is a memoir that includes Whyte's narrative verse and reminiscences to mark the 40th anniversary of his arrival in Canada. His experiences in 1967 are only part of a journey that includes ruminations about Canada's "two solitudes," Pierre Trudeau, heroes and feet of clay, Alberta oil, multiculturalism, fast food, the military, health care and more.



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