{"product_id":"the-37-rebels-and-lovers-in-old-canada-9781039190139","title":"The '37: Rebels and Lovers in Old Canada","description":"Why does young, reform-minded lawyer George-Étienne Cartier join an armed uprising only to later reject violence as a means to achieve responsible government for Canada?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1837, Lower Canada seethes with discontent. After savage rioting in Montreal between hardline loyalists and dissident radicals, there is no turning back. Cartier, a future Father of Confederation, commits himself to rebellion against the British Crown. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by three of Cartier's recently discovered letters, The '37 deftly weaves fact with fiction. It imagines how an affair with a beautiful and witty schoolteacher, Dorothy Russell, changes his life-and helps ensure the birth of an independent Canada. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the battlefields of Lower Canada to languid trysts on an isolated farmstead, from the ambiguities of exile in the United States to the wretched clarity of executions in Montreal, from withered farm fields to hints of a new industrial age, the novel paints a picture of a country in the grip of rapid, unrelenting change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Kalbfleisch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781039190139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKalbfleisch, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John Kalbfleisch is the author of A Stain Upon the Land: Love and Death in Old Montreal (2017), No Place More Suitable: Four Centuries of Montreal Stories (2018), Le Cadeau Royal: Histoire de la Ville de Mont-Royal \/ The Royal Gift: a History of Town of Mount Royal (2013), and This Island in Time: Remarkable Tales from Montreal's Past (2008). He is also a co-author of Montreal's Century: a Record of the News and People Who Shaped the City in the 20th Century (1999).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter flirting with a career in teaching, he became a journalist. He spent four decades at the Montreal Gazette as a reporter, editorial writer, and Op-Ed editor. He also wrote a regular column on the city's history. After retirement, it was the shortest of steps to writing full-length books, both fiction and nonfiction. He now lives with his wife in Perth, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FriesenPress","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43234749677683,"sku":"9.78104E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_72587b36-e4f7-4c30-b4e5-51ed7129d2b3.jpg?v=1754140913","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-37-rebels-and-lovers-in-old-canada-9781039190139","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}