For more than a decade, the Globe and Mail has featured comprehensive obituaries of notable British Columbians by columnist Tom Hawthorn. He recounts the lives of the recently departed in an engaging style, finding anecdotes to illuminate personality, giving voice to those who no longer have one. These stories are not about death, but about life in all its sad, funny, exhilarating complexity. Gathered here are the best, the funniest, the most memorable of the passing parade of characters who make life in British Columbia so remarkable. Here are athletes and authors, warriors and scholars, innovators and trailblazers. You will meet the boxer Baby Face and a wrestler known as Mean Gene; the yodeling cowboy singer Alberta Slim and a geologist called Professor Midas; the last living member of the RCMP posse that tracked down the Mad Trapper of Rat River and a demon barber whose preferred murder weapon was alcohol. You'll go tracking with the the Cougar Lady of Sechelt, lift weights with the World's Strongest Man, and wince from the blows of police truncheons used against labour leader Steve Brodie on Bloody Sunday, much of the blood spilled that day his own. You also will meet politicians of all stripes (including prison stripes). Hawthorn bids adieu to a panoply of characters in obits that are colourful and touching. The exuberance of his writing makes this book one of the great nonfiction reads of the season.

Deadlines: Obits of Memorable British Columbians

Biographies & Memoirs

Hawthorn, Tom

Memoirs

Harbour Publishing

At first, Canadians showed little interest in marking the centennial. The announcement of a federal program to plan the celebration was met with initial indifference. After all, the event to be celebrated was spectacularly uninteresting―the nation was founded not in blood and revolution, but by discussion and negotiation, bewhiskered men in nineteenth-century frock coats sitting around tables for palaver. But a funny thing happened in the weeks leading to New Year’s Day, 1967. Canadians embraced the official plans for a celebration and, encouraged by government largesse, began making plans of their own. For one happy, giddy, insane year, a normally reserved people decided to hold a blockbuster party from coast to coast to coast.Initiatives ranged from epic canoe trips and dangerous dogsled treks to bathtub races. An Albertan town decided to build a UFO landing pad. Hundreds of other centennial projects can still be found in almost every city and hamlet across Canada. The best athletes in the hemisphere gathered for the Pan American Games in Winnipeg. The climax of the party was the world’s fair held on man-made islands in the middle of the St. Lawrence River near Montreal.Richly illustrated with period photographs and ephemera, here is the story of that fun, exciting year, told in the same giddy spirit with which Canadians celebrated. Uncover the strange and unique ways that individual Canadians marked the occasion, the birth of traditions, and the moment when Canadians discovered who they were and got a hint about who they were to become in this modern age. Once hewers of wood and pliers of water, they discovered a talent for literature, for design, for athletics, for innovation. And above all, it was a party never to be forgotten. Fifty years later, Canadians are once again celebrating a major milestone in their history, and once again, things are starting off with a collective yawn. Will the national spirit once again burst into flame? It could―if Canadians take a cue from the unlikely, inspiring story of The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country.

The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds: The Centennial of 1967

History

Americas

Douglas&McIntyre

Traducido al espa ol por Reynaldo Cruz. Minnie Mi oso. Mart n Dihigo. Luis Tiant. Orlando "El Duque" y Liv n Hern ndez. Estas son s lo algunas de las grandes figuras perfiladas en Leyendas del B isbol Cubano: El Universo Alternativo del B isbol. Los 47 individuos describen m s adelante representan s lo un peque o pu ado de las legiones de memorable y figuras a veces incluso legendarios producidos a lo largo de casi un siglo y medio por una naci n de la isla donde el deporte del palo-y-ball conocido como el b isbol es m s que un pasatiempo nacional, es la pasi n nacional. Este volumen presenta 47 biograf as en total, adem s de ensayos sobre el b isbol cubano. Estas biograf as fueron investigados y escritos por un equipo de miembros de la SABR. BioProject de SABR ha producido biograf as de m s de 3,800 jugadores desde 2002. Una edici n en espa ol del libro tambi n est disponible, una nueva primera para SABR. Aquino Abreu by Peter C. Bjarkman Rafael Almeida by Zack Moser Santos Amaro by Rory Costello Sandy (Edmundo) Amor s by Rory Costello Steve (Esteb n) Bell n by Brian McKenna Ram n Braga a by Lou Hernandez Bert (Dagoberto) Campaneris by Rich Schabowski Jos Cardenal by Ray Birch Paul Casanova by Rory Costello and Jos Ramirez Sandy (Sandalio) Consuegra by Rory Costello Mike (Miguel) Cu llar by Adam Ulrey Tommie (Tom s) de la Cruz by Peter C. Bjarkman Mart n Dihigo by Peter C. Bjarkman Pedro Formental by Tom Hawthorn Mike (Miguel) Fornieles by Thomas Ayers B rbaro Garbey by Doug Hill Silvio Garc a by Joe Gerard Mike (Miguel ngel) Gonz lez by Joe Gerard Tony Gonz lez by Rory Costello and Jos Ramirez Mike (Ferm n) Guerra by Bill Nowlin El Duque (Orlando) Hern ndez and Liv n Hern ndez by Peter C. Bjarkman Mike (Ram n) Herrera by Bill Nowlin Pancho Herrera by Jos Ramirez Omar Linares by Peter C. Bjarkman Dolf (Adolfo) Luque by Peter C. Bjarkman Bobby Maduro by Rory Costello Connie (Conrado) Marrero by Peter C. Bjarkman Armando Marsans by Eric Enders Rogelio Martinez by Rory Costello Rom n Mejias by Ron Briley, Rory Costello, and Bill Nowlin Jos de la Caridad M ndez by Peter C. Bjarkman Minnie (Orestes) Mi oso by Mark Stewart Willy (Guillermo) Miranda by Rory Costello Julio Moreno by Rory Costello Tony Oliva by Peter C. Bjarkman Alejandro Oms by John Struth Camilo Pascual by Peter C. Bjarkman Tony (Tani) P rez by Phil Cola Pedro Ramos by Peter C. Bjarkman Cookie (Octavio) Rojas by Peter M. Gordon Chico Ruiz by Rory Costello Jos Tartabull by Joanne Hulbert Tony Taylor by Rory Costello and Jos Ramirez Luis Tiant Jr.by Mark Armour Luis Tiant Sr. by Rory Costello Crist bal Torriente by Peter C. Bjarkman Zoilo Versalles by Peter C. Bjarkman

Leyendas del Beisbol Cubano: El Universo Alternativo del Beisbol (Spanish Edition)

Sports & Outdoors

Enders, Eric

Armour, Mark

Bjarkman, Peter

Ayers, Thomas

Schabowski, Rich

Gerard, Joe

Cola, Phil

Ramirez, Jose

Stewart. Mark

Baseball

Society for American Baseball Research

Canadian baseball has a rich, diverse, and deeply rooted history, one that spans fully two centuries. As was true in the United States, the stories reflect the competitive and entrepreneurial spirits of a rapidly changing time. Baseball’s development north of the border was shaped by the same social and economic influences, and at roughly the same times, as it was to the south. Arranged chronologically, the essays in his volume tell the tales of the influential figures and milestone events that defined and directed the game’s growth in Canada. The articles shine a spotlight on the movers and shakers, the pioneers, the leagues and games and tournaments, and the regions all across the country that hosted them. 
Crowds as large as 10,000 viewed matches between London and Guelph in the 1870s, at a time when the combined population of the two cities was less than 27,000. Thousands flocked to Vancouver’s Powell Street Grounds in the 1920s and 1930s to watch their local heroes, the Asahi, a team of Japanese Canadians. The Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team played their first game in 1895. Almost 100 years later, over four million people would spin the turnstiles to see the Toronto Blue Jays. Canadians played in the Negro Leagues and in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGBPL), and Canada has been home to both affiliated minor leagues and “outlaw” leagues. 
This book is an initiative of the Centre for Canadian Baseball Research and the Hanlan’s Point (Greater Toronto) Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. It is the collaborative effort of more than 30 SABR members, almost all of them Canadian.

Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

North, Andrew

Humber, William

Trudeau, Christian

Dame, Stephen

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