Rudy Wiebe and Jonathan Vance
Monday, April 10, 2006
Hart House Library (7 Hart House Circle), 7:30pm
Rudy Wiebe, an international lecturer, college and university teacher, writer of numerous film and television scripts, author of Peace Shall Destroy Many, First and Vital Candle, Governor General’s Award winner The Temptations of Big Bear, brings us Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest. It is a beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, in the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community – and Rudy’s first home.
Jonathan Vance, historian and storyteller, author of High Flight, brings us Building Canada, an imaginative look at the architecture, transportation, and icons that made Canada what it is today. It brings to life overlooked episodes in this country’s growth and shows how twelve far-reaching building projects shaped the nation’s life, culture, and identity.
