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The teenager stood on the jumble of crumbling rocks that were strung along the beach at the foot of a reddish cliff. This was his favourite place to be. He knew he could spend whole days here without meeting a living soul. Alone with the sea, it’s easy to dream...
Kwe! I know the original occupants of the magnificent Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, located in northwestern Quebec, Canada. "The Legend of Témisca" is a tribute to the culture of the Anishnabe people, the Algonquians, to the respect they have for the forest and the wildlife, an environment that is their own... Aki, Mother Earth, Kizis the sun, the plants and the animals.
One autumn evening, a man in a small apartment near the Lower Saint Lawrence River becomes lost in a labyrinth of crazy and senseless ideas. A yellow cat is annoying him and there is also this voice that interferes and guides him. Is he a friend or a foe? When, how and where will this suffering end? Well, well!
You can't miss them. They'll be looking out for you, and, once they catch you, they'll chuck you into the eviction machine as soon as they can. With dollar signs for eyes, they're voracious and merciless toward their victims. Some claim they need to renovate urgently, while others say they need to adjust to the market, otherwise they'll be in trouble. Still others harass their victims, solely for the pleasure of seeing them squirm. Alfreda Leduc, an elderly lady, is forced to move because her landlord wants to repossess the house she's currently occupying. There's a pandemic in the country and everything's going from bad to worse. Despite his threats, she refuses to give up and decides to wait things out until the Housing Authority holds a hearing. However, the landlord has no end of ideas to harm his tenant. He wants her out of his building at all costs! How will this misadventure end? In her home or under a bridge?
David Langelier returns to Quebec after five years of exile. Honourably discharged from the Canadian Armed Forces, he becomes a miner in Abitibi, his homeland. At the bottom of a gold mine, he keeps his heart at the surface, with Nicole, with whom he is madly in love. Thugs interfere in their relationship, a native, Pijeense, an Ojibway from Lake Nipissing, comes to his aid. But misfortune strikes again: cancer threatens the young mother-daughter. Although David is a former military man, the news frightens him, but he soon decides to confront the disease with Nicole and her daughter, little Jessica. It remains to be seen how it will all end... In this novel, two stories are presented in para...
The capital of Abitibi, Rouyn-Noranda, is hosting the International Kekeko this winter, the great sled dog race. That day, Rodolphe Galarneau, a newcomer to this universe, did not suspect for a moment that he would finish on the Podium.
Después de despertar del coma, David Langelier se encuentra en una situación bastante increíble, a bordo de un tren que lo lleva a Gaspésie, al otro extremo de Quebec. Ha perdido la memoria, pero conoce su identidad porque tiene la billetera en el bolsillo. Fue víctima de un accidente y desde entonces se encuentra en coma, en una habitación del Hôtel-Dieu de Amos, localidad de Abitibi. Una tarde, bajo la lluvia torrencial, sale del hospital y se pierde por las calles de la ciudad. Muy debilitado tras meses de reposo en cama, divisó una estación y se refugió en un vagón de tren de la Canadian National, exhausto pero extrañamente contento con las circunstancias. Al abrigo de la lluvia, cae en un sueño profundo... Así comienza el tercer volumen de la saga Abitibi. En Gaspésie
Αυτό το βιβλίο μαγειρικής παρέχει επισκόπηση των γαστρονομικών γεύσεων που βρίσκονται στην όμορφη επαρχία του Κεμπέκ, στον Καναδά. Οι παραδοσιακές συνταγές της γιαγιάς μου, δοκιμάστε τις και δείτε! Εδώ θα βρείτε συνταγές από την περιοχή του Κεμπέκ, που μεταφέρονται από γενιά σε γενιά από μητέρες που έχουν καθήκον να χρησιμοποιούν σωστά τα προϊόντα της γης. Το Αμπιτίμπι εγκαταστάθηκε στις αρχές του 1900- αυτές οι συνταγές είναι από αυτό το μέρος της χώρας που ονομάζεται βορειοδυτικό Κεμπέκ...
David Langelier revient au Québec après cinq années d'exil. Il devient mineur en Abitibi, son coin de pays. Au fond d'une mine d'or, il garde son coeur à la surface, avec Nicole, dont il est follement amoureux. Des voyous s'interposent dans leur relation. Un autochtone, Pijeense, un Ojibway du Lac Nipissing, lui vient en aide !Mais le malheur persiste : Un cancer menace la jeune fille-mère. David a beau être un ancien militaire, la nouvelle l'effraie mais il se décide vite à confronter la maladie avec Nicole et sa fille, la petite Jessica. Reste à savoir comment le trio surmontera l'épreuve...
Who could have imagined that the RCMP, those clean-cut men in red, steal dynamite and destroy private property, break and enter, wiretap at will and generally behave as if the law of the land applied to everyone but themselves? Jeff Sallot, who covered the McDonald Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the RCMP for a year, has written a gripping account of the force's illegal activities. Burning down a barn in Quebec to prevent separatist meetings, breaking into offices and stealing Parti Quebecois membership files, intimidating people suspected of FLQ affiliations into informing on their friends and repeatedly opening private mail in flagrant violation of Canada's laws on p...