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Pierre Berton was born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon. He worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years, spending four years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. After the military, Berton went to Vancouver where he began mostrar más his career at a newspaper. At 21, he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily. He moved to Toronto in 1947, and at the age of 31 was named managing editor of Maclean's. In 1957 he became a key member of the CBC's public affairs flagship program, Close-Up, and a permanent panelist on Front Page Challenge. He joined The Toronto Star as an associate editor and columnist in 1958, leaving 4 years later in '62 to commence The Pierre Berton Show, which ran until 1973. Since then he has appeared as host and writer on My Country, The Great Debate, Heritage Theatre, and The Secret of My Success. He has received numerous honourary degrees and served as the Chancellor of Yukon College. Berton is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, and has received a Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor in 1959, a Govenor's General Award for The Mysterious North in 1956, Klondike in 1958 and The Last Spike in 1972. Berton has also won a Nellie Award for best public broadcaster in radio in 1978, the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for non fiction in, 1981 and the Canadian Booksellers Award in 1982. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Nota de desambiguación:

(eng) Wrote a single novel as Lisa Kroniuk.

Series

Obras de Pierre Berton

Vimy (1986) 375 copias
The Last Spike (1971) 302 copias
The National Dream (1970) 281 copias
The Secret World of Og (1961) 239 copias
The Comfortable Pew (1965) 180 copias
The Great Railway (1972) 142 copias
Prisoners of the North (2004) 141 copias
The Wild Frontier (1978) 132 copias
Drifting Home (1973) 107 copias
Why We Act Like Canadians (1982) 98 copias
1967: The Last Good Year (1997) 57 copias
Starting Out 1920-1947 (1987) 47 copias
Winter (1994) 47 copias
The Capture of Detroit (1991) 46 copias
Mysterious North (1956) 41 copias
The Death of Isaac Brock (1991) 36 copias
Steel Across the Shield (1994) 35 copias
The Railway Pathfinders (1992) 35 copias
Pierre Berton's War of 1812 (2011) 35 copias
The Death of Tecumseh (1994) 33 copias
The Klondike Stampede (1991) 33 copias
Bonanza Gold (1657) 32 copias
Cats I Have Known and Loved (2002) 31 copias
The Great Lakes (1996) 30 copias
The smug minority (1967) 30 copias
The Men in Sheepskin Coats (1992) 30 copias
A Prairie Nightmare (1992) 30 copias
Jane Franklin's Obsession (1992) 29 copias
Dr. Kane of the Arctic Seas (1993) 29 copias
Before the Gold Rush (1993) 26 copias
Kings of the Klondike (1993) 25 copias
Battle of Lake Erie (1994) 24 copias
Trapped in the Arctic (1993) 24 copias
Great Canadians: A Century of Achievement (1965) — Editor — 23 copias
Canada Under Siege (1991) 21 copias
Attack on Montreal (1995) 20 copias
Seacoasts (1999) 19 copias
City of Gold (1992) 19 copias
Revenge of the Tribes (1991) 18 copias
Just Add Water and Stir (1959) 18 copias
Adventures of a Columnist (1960) 15 copias
Trails of '98 (1992) 15 copias
Historic Headlines (1967) 15 copias
Canada Moves West (2005) 14 copias
The Big Sell 12 copias
Fast Fast Fast Relief (1967) 9 copias
Voices from the Sixties (1967) 5 copias
The Berton Family Cookbook (1985) — Editor — 5 copias
Eh! Canada (2001) 2 copias
Masquerade (1985) 2 copias
The Beaver (Vol. 64, No. 2 Summer 1984) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Visions and Voices (2005) 1 copia
A Klondike bibliography (1959) 1 copia

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Because We Are Canadians (2003) — Prólogo — 15 copias
The Nature of Mammals (1975) — Editor — 14 copias
City of Gold [1957 short] (1957) — Narrador — 3 copias

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Nombre canónico
Berton, Pierre
Nombre legal
Berton, Pierre Francis de Marigny CC, O.Ont
Otros nombres
Kroniuk, Lisa
Fecha de nacimiento
1920-07-12
Fecha de fallecimiento
2004-11-30
Lugar de sepultura
Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada (ashes scattered)
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Canada
País (para mapa)
Canada
Lugar de nacimiento
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Lugar de fallecimiento
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Causa de fallecimiento
heart failure
Lugares de residencia
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Educación
University of British Columbia (BA | History)
Victoria College
Ocupaciones
historian
Captain (Canadian Army)
Instructor (Royal Military College of Canada)
writer
journalist
Relaciones
Berton, Janet (wife)
Berton, Laura Beatrice (mother)
Organizaciones
The Ubyssey
Canadian Army
Royal Military College of Canada
CBC
Yukon College
Writers' Trust of Canada
Premios y honores
Order of Canada (Officer ∙ 1974 | Companion ∙ 1986)
Governor General's Literary Award (creative non-fiction ∙ 1956 ∙ 1958 ∙ 1972)
Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour (1960)
CBA Libris Award (Lifetime Achievement Award ∙ 2004)
Gabrielle Léger National Heritage Award (1989)
National History Society (first award for "distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history" ∙ 1994) (mostrar todos 15)
Canadian Authors' Association Award, Canada's Man of the Century (1967)
The Alumni Award of Distinction, University of British Columbia (1981)
Canadian News Hall of Fame (member ∙ 1983)
Canadian Railway Hall of Fame Award of Recognition (2002)
Graeme Gibson Award (1992)
Order of Mariposa (1990)
Order of Ontario (1992)
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002)
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (1977)
Biografía breve
Pierre Berton was a well-known Canadian historian and TV personality. Berton grew up in the Yukon and worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years. He began his newspaper career in Vancouver, becoming the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily at age 21. Berton moved to Toronto in 1947, and in 1951 he became managing editor of Maclean's magazine.
Berton first appeared on TV in 1952, as a panellist on Court of Opinion. In 1957, he became the host of the CBC's public affairs flagship program Close-Up, and became a panelist on Front Page Challenge. He joined The Toronto Star as associate editor and columnist in 1958, leaving in 1962 to commence The Pierre Berton Show, which ran until 1973. In 1963 he premiered the Pierre Berton Show (also known as the Pierre Berton Hour) on the CTV network.
Aviso de desambiguación
Wrote a single novel as Lisa Kroniuk.

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Denunciada
BooksInMirror | 7 reseñas más. | Feb 19, 2024 |
Lovely photo essays, and word essays. A mix of reminiscences, history, and current (to the early 1990s) observations. The words evoked a lot of what I feel about winter. And I loved that there were photos of snowstorms!
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Beth3511 | Feb 3, 2024 |
A könyv az alaszkai (pontosabban klondike-i) aranyláz történetét mutatja be meglepő részletességgel. Bár a szerző nem volt személyesen részese az aranyláznak, de gyerekkorát Dawson Cityben töltötte (édesapja ment oda az aranyláz miatt) így még tudott a szemtanúkkal beszélni. Ezen kívül számtalan visszaemlékezést, könyvet, cikket használt fel a kutatása során.

A részletes és pontos leírás mellett a könyv rengeteg nehezen ellenőrizhető történetet tartalmaz, ezek egy része tényleg regénybe illik, nem tudom vajon mennyire igaz minden, a legjobb szándékkal is becsúszhattak túlzások. A leírás tényleg nagyon izgalmas, érdekes azt is olvasni persze, milyen szenvedéseket mentek át az aranyásók, de nekem sokkal érdekesebbnek tűnt a hely gazdaságának bemutatása, furcsa volt olvasni, hogy milyen egyszerű dolgok kerültek vagyonokba, milyen tárgyak voltak teljesen értéktelenek. Elég jól bemutatja a könyv azt is, hogy pontosan kik és miért is mentek aranyásónak.

A könyv időnként túl részletes, kordokumentumként persze fontos az ötvenedik aranyásó története is, de egy idő után azért ez elég repetitív.
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asalamon | 10 reseñas más. | Oct 2, 2023 |
This book recounts the events of the first year of the War of 1812, and the present tense puts the reader at the heart of the action. It was written in 1980, though, and I’m sure more recent scholarship can fill in the (acknowledged by Berton) gaps in history, notably events from the Indigenous perspective.
 
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rabbitprincess | 8 reseñas más. | Jul 8, 2023 |

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