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Christmas in Mariposa : sketches of Canada's legendary little town
- Title
- Christmas in Mariposa : sketches of Canada's legendary little town / Jamie Lamb.
- Author
- Lamb, Jamie, 1952-
- Publication
- Victoria [British Columbia] : Heritage House Publishing, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-1395 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 230 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Many Canadians grew up in small towns, or at least in neighbourhoods that acted like small towns. But what if you grew up in Canada's most famous small town--Stephen Leacock's Mariposa? This was the world that journalist Jamie Lamb was raised in, the actual place that inspired Leacock's Canadian classic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, over a century ago. The Mariposa of Lamb's time was slightly different, yet it still embodied the heart and soul, the eccentricities and the bizarre local customs of Leacock's sketches. Christmas in Mariposa is a celebration of that town and its people. It tells of secret gardens, special rinks, oddball hotels, remarkable foods, fast boats and sunken aircraft, Christmas Eve fireworks, and the best Christmas office party in the country. It describes a place where Christmas could be celebrated in summer with a Baby Jesus look-alike contest, Canada's only officially sanctioned reindeer races, and the Three Wise Men arriving with gifts by parachute. It transports readers to a world where where Gordie Howe once dropped by for a skate, and Glenn Gould regularly came to eat a well-done steak and six Parker House rolls slathered in butter at a Chinese restaurant. Jamie Lamb's Mariposa is timeless and quintessentially Canadian."--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes.
- Humor.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1395
- ISBN
- 1772032875
- 9781772032871
- OCLC
- 1103979700
- Author
- Lamb, Jamie, 1952- author.
- Title
- Christmas in Mariposa : sketches of Canada's legendary little town / Jamie Lamb.
- Publisher
- Victoria [British Columbia] : Heritage House Publishing, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lamb, Jamie, 1952- Christmas in Mariposa. Victoria, British Columbia : Heritage House Publishing, 2019 1772032867 9781772032864 (OCoLC)1107697919
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1395