Jacques Poitras
Autore di Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy
Sull'Autore
Jacques Poitras is the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News in New Brunswick. His journalism has been recognized by the National Newspaper Awards and the Radio and Television News Directors Association. His book Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy was shortlisted for the BC Award for Canadian mostra altro Non-Fiction and the National Business Book Award and won the 2008 Best Atlantic Published Book Award. mostra meno
Opere di Jacques Poitras
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- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- New Brunswick, Canada
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- Opere
- 6
- Utenti
- 57
- Popolarità
- #287,973
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 13
The author recounts life in New Brunswick Canada living near the somewhat porous border with Maine USA.
Estcourt is unique: part of the community is in Québec, but the other part is at the northernmost tip of Maine, though cut off from the rest of the state by vast forests. There are no public American roads leading to Estcourt, which means that U.S. residents rely on Québec for access to electricity, telephone service, and road links to the outside world.
I’ve always thought, looking at a map of North America, that Maine should be part of Canada, sticking up the way it does well past the 49th parallel that forms most of the border across the continent. In Imaginary Line, Poitras recounts the history of land division that gave Maine to the USA and New Brunswick to Canada, and reveals the error of my thinking.
Why is this border “unfinished”? Because of a small island in the mouth of the Penobscot River that both countries claim, but neither will relinquish.
Very interesting – to both Canadians and Americans, I would think.
4 stars… (altro)