[lesouris]

Without Pierre Berton, I don't think Vive, or even Canada would exist. We owe him a lot, including our own identity, and our history. Today a great nationalist and patriot has passed away, and let us never forget all he did for us.

[Dr Caleb]

A fine man. I hope his final TV appearance, after 40 some years of Front Page Challenge, was on celbrity drug tips. It would be fitting for his lifestyle, and just his sense of humour. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/smile.gif' alt='Smile'> <br />

[Arrow]

Read his books. He forgot a feck of a lot more intestin' shyte about Canada than most of you feckers'll ever know.

[Arctic_Menace]

My Grandfather worked with Pierre Berton. Pierre was the Best Man at my Granddad's wedding...

[Arrow]

Arctic_Menace wrote:

My Grandfather worked with Pierre Berton. Pierre was the Best Man at my Granddad's wedding...

Well, he may not have been a perfect man but quite honestly, there's damn few of us.

I just would've liked to have met Stan Rogers. Get Rogers and Berton working together on a Canadian project and it would've been gold. Damn Air Canada flight 797!

[Mustang1]

Arrow wrote:

Read his books. He forgot a feck of a lot more intestin' shyte about Canada than most of you feckers'll ever know.

Huh

[Arrow]

Mustang1 wrote:

Arrow wrote:

Read his books. He forgot a feck of a lot more intestin' shyte about Canada than most of you feckers'll ever know.

Huh

OK, to translate for those who see not the value of this country. He's looked into the storied history of our country and found and written about many and sundry interesting Canadian stories. For all you who think our story is boredom writ large, may I humbly suggest you read pretty much anything written by Berton. You'll get the interesting bits written from the perspective of a newspaperman and realise that there's much more worth learning about your country than you might have otherwise realised.

"The Invasion of Canada" followed by "Flames Across The Border" if you really want to get the sense of the moment that made the biggest difference in our national existence.

[Mustang1]

Arrow wrote:

Mustang1 wrote:

Arrow wrote:

Read his books. He forgot a feck of a lot more intestin' shyte about Canada than most of you feckers'll ever know.

Huh

OK, to translate for those who see not the value of this country. He's looked into the storied history of our country and found and written about many and sundry interesting Canadian stories. For all you who think our story is boredom writ large, may I humbly suggest you read pretty much anything written by Berton. You'll get the interesting bits written from the perspective of a newspaperman and realise that there's much more worth learning about your country than you might have otherwise realised.

"The Invasion of Canada" followed by "Flames Across The Border" if you really want to get the sense of the moment that made the biggest difference in our national existence.

Oh...I get the contribution of Berton to popularizing our history. I was merely asking for a translation of your post.

I'm more of a Bliss, Granatstein, Morton and Bothwell fan, but Berton certainly deserves praise

[kenmore]

M.Berton was a great Canadian and a wonderful historian. I have read many of his books and atricles. His books should have been used to teach history as he gave Canadian History life and meaning. Truly a sad loss.

[Streaker]

lesouris wrote:

Without Pierre Berton, I don't think Vive, or even Canada would exist.

Just a slight exaggeration, perhaps?

lesouris wrote:

We owe him a lot, including our own identity, and our history. Today a great nationalist and patriot has passed away, and let us never forget all he did for us.

Agreed.

[Arrow]

Mustang1 wrote:

Oh...I get the contribution of Berton to popularizing our history. I was merely asking for a translation of your post.

I'm more of a Bliss, Granatstein, Morton and Bothwell fan, but Berton certainly deserves praise

OK, once more with sobriety.

Arrow wrote:

Read his books. He forgot a feck of a lot more intestin' shyte about Canada than most of you feckers'll ever know.

Pick one of his books, any one. More shit got edited out for length considerations than most Canadians will ever know. We have a national pass-time of forgetting our history, thus dooming ourselves to repeat it. We think our great-grandparents didn't know dick. So we diddle around with the notion of deep-sixing national health care. We think that everything worth knowing sprouts from south of the border (even if it originated from north of the border). We historically give our best and brightest short shrift until they get the imprimature of the States. THEN we think they're worthy.

We look askance at those who stay here to make their way. Staying here immediately renders them somehow damaged goods. Polley, Cronenberg, Egoyan, McKellar. Even when they're hailed elsewhere, if they stay here, there's something wrong.

We gotta get over it. We gotta make Laurier's pronouncement about the 20th Century come true in the 21st. There certainly isn't any valid reason for it not to.

Oh yeah. And a pox on this son of a bitch