Roy MacGregor is een gevierde auteur wiens werk diep in de wereld van ijshockey duikt. Zijn schrijfstijl wordt geprezen om zijn vermogen om de essentie van de sport en de impact ervan op levens vast te leggen. MacGregor onderzoekt thema's als familie, gemeenschap en de passie die zowel spelers als fans drijft. Door middel van zijn verhalen biedt hij een uniek perspectief op het culturele landschap en de relatie ervan met ijshockey.
Who are we? In Canadians, one of Canada's most intelligent and beloved writers maps our national psyche in a wonderful and ambitious work. Canadians is an entertaining portrait of this country and its people, through its history, popular culture, literature, sport, landscape, and weather. In his pursuit of the Canadian national identity, MacGregor has travelled far and wide, taking our pulse, telling our stories. A sparkling blend of historical, anecdotal, and reflective writing converges in a narrative that is extraordinarily learned in its perceptions and light in its delivery--all trademarks of this remarkable writer's work.
The life we live, the benefits we enjoy, the happiness we have would not be possible without the contributions this man made. It is only fitting that we get to know him, and that is the spirit of this book.
"From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people—what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since. From his early days in the pages of Maclean's, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page two of the Globe and Mail, MacGregor was one of the country's must-read journalists. While news media were leaning increasingly right or left, he always leaned north, his curiosity trained by the deep woods and cold lakes of Algonquin Park to share stories from Canada's farthest reaches, even as he worked in the newsrooms of its southern capitols. From Parliament to the backyard rink, subarctic shores to prairie expanses, MacGregor shaped the way Canadians saw and thought about themselves—never entirely untethered from the land and its history. When MacGregor was still a young editor at Maclean's, the 21-year-old chief of the Waskaganish (aka Rupert's House) Crees, Billy Diamond, found in Roy a willing listener as the chief was appealing desperately to newsrooms across Ottawa, trying to bring attention to the tainted-water emergency in his community. Where other journalists had shrugged off Diamond's appeals, MacGregor got on a tiny plane into northern Quebec. From there began a long friendship that would one day lead MacGregor to a Winnipeg secret location with Elijah Harper and his advisors, a host of the most influential Indigenous leaders in Canada, as the Manitoba MPP contemplated the Charlottetown Accord and a vote that could shatter what seemed at the time the country's last chance to save Confederation. This was the sort of exclusive access to vital Canadian stories that Roy MacGregor always seemed to secure. And as his ardent fans will discover, the observant small-town boy turned pre-eminent journalist put his rare vantage point to exceptional use. Filled with reminiscences of an age when Canadian newsrooms were populated by outsized characters, outright rogues and passionate practitioners, the unputdownable Paper Trails is a must-read account of a life lived in stories."-- Provided by publisher
A superb portfolio of pictures by one of Canada's great photographers.In this exquisitely photographed record of the Canadian landscape, renowned photographer J.A. Kraulis captures the majesty and grandeur of a vast and staggeringly diverse country. Expansive prairies and forests, impressive coastlines, majestic inland lakes and rivers are captured in these images of the land.This magnificent collection of over 200 photographs and captions presents Canada at its most visceral: a flash of lightning exploding across a summer sky; a sudden winter storm descending on an otherwise tranquil bay; the surface of a lake caught in a moment of stillness, mirroring the world around it -- scenes of unbridled beauty as captured by one of the country's most prolific photographers.Canada: Images of the Land is a celebration of a country that will inspire urban dwellers and nature enthusiasts alike.
Od prvního okamžiku, kdy si Roy MacGregor přinesl domů první štěňátko Cindy zabalené do tlustého svetru, až po kouzelné zimní procházky s dosud posledním pejskem Wilowem, líčí autor slasti a strasti života se psy. Kniha Pes a já kanadského spisovatele Roye MacGregora je autorova pocta psu, oddanému společníku člověka a jeho bezvýhradné lásce. Autor se umí dívat na svět psíma očima -- jeho kniha je plná humorných příběhů i těch smutnějších okamžiků, které Roy zažil za dobu svého letitého přátelství se psy od chvíle, kdy jako jedenáctiletý dostal své první štěňátko. Kanaďan Roy MacGregor je přes třicet let novinářem a jeho sloupek „Venkov“, který již dlouhá léta otiskuje celostátní kanadský deník The Globe and Mail, je nesmírně populární. Je také autorem řady knih, které se staly bestsellery a získaly ocenění kritiky, jako například Escape, Canoe Lake, A Life in the Bush, The Home Team, The Weekender, a oblíbené řady příběhů The Screech Owls pro děti. MacGregor v roce 2005 byl oceněn kanadským státním vyznamenáním Officer of the Order of Canada a v současné době žije v ottawské Kanadě v provincii Ontario.
