A Good Day's Work: In Pursuit of a Disappearing Canada

by John Demont

A Good Day's Work is a lyrical journey through a semi-mythological place: the Canada of our imagination. It is the Canada of the day before yesterday. Or perhaps the Canada of 1967 -- the country's "Last Good Year," as Pierre Berton dubbed it. It is a portrait of Canada captured by way of encounters with a blacksmith, a cowgirl, a milkman, a traveling salesman and other custodians of trades from another time. Woven into the always engaging, sometimes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385665075
• ISBN13: 9780385665070
• Release Date: January 2035
• Publisher: Anchor Canada
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.