Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue

by Norman Ravvin

Kahnawake on the shore of the St Laurence across from Montreal. The North Shore of Vancouver. The Bow River shoreline in downtown Calgary. Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. These are a few of the vantages from which Norman Ravvin looks beyond contemporary urban and rural landscapes to uncover past and once-possible Canadas, lost voices and vanished ways of living that are made recognizable once again. Through interviews, careful research and a good many miles burning up the roadways, Norman Ravvin offers a view of this country as never seen before.

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2001

About the author

Norman Ravvin is a writer of fiction, criticism and journalism. His books include Hidden Canada, Cafe des Westens, Sex, Skyscrapers, and Yiddish, and A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory. He has also edited the short story collection Great Stories of the Sea, His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Canadian magazines as well as on the CBC. He has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto and the University of New Brunswick. Presently, he is the chair of Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.