James Bartleman

Seasons of Hope (eBook, ePUB)

Memoirs of Ontario's First Aboriginal Lieutenant Governor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2016 Speaker's Book Award - Shortlisted

A look back over Bartleman's seventy years, from his childhood of poverty to becoming the Queen's representative in Ontario.

James Bartleman, Ontario's first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how learning to read at any early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his country as an ambassador. In time, Bartleman's exciting and fulfilling career as a Canadian diplomat took him to a dozen countries around the world, from Bangladesh to Cuba, and from Australia to South Africa.

After a vicious beating in a hotel room robbery in South Africa, however, he was forced to come to terms with a deepening depression. In the end, Bartleman found new meaning in life when he became the Queen's representative in Ontario and mobilized the public to support his initiatives championing books and education for Native children.

Seasons of Hope is the extraordinary story of an extraordinary man, and of his constant journey to hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781459733084
• Artikelnr.: 44908671

Autorenporträt

James Bartleman is the former lieutenant governor of Ontario and the bestselling author of the novels As Long as the Rivers Flow and The Redemption of Oscar Wolf. A member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, he is also a retired ambassador, an officer of the Order of Canada, and winner of the Aboriginal Achievement Award. He lives in Perth, Ontario.

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Preface 
Part One: Muskoka: 1946-1966 
1 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town 
2 The Dump Road 
3 The Haunted House 
4 Rage 
5 Peace of Mind 
6 Springtime in Muskoka 
7 The Hammer 
8 Indigenous Roots 
9 Six Choir Boys 
10 A Story My Mother Told Me 
11 Out of Poverty 
12 The SS Sagamo 
13 My Big Break 
14 Freedom 
Part Two: The Foreign Service Officer: 1966-1981 
15 Ottawa: A Time of Optimism 
16 Colombia: Cockroaches the Size of Lizards 
17 Colombia: The Antiques Road Show 
18 Ottawa Under Siege 
19 Bangladesh: The Gates of Hell 
20 Bangladesh: La Condition Humaine 
21 NATO: Dr. Strangelove 
22 The First Time I Saw Jerusalem 
23 He Then Dismissed Us 
24 It Felt Good 
Part Three: Ambassadorial Postings, 1981-1994 
25 Cuba: The Dead Fly 
26 Cuba: Poisoning Zaka 
27: Israel: A Shot to the Head 
28 Israel: Khirbet Khizeh and Obagawanung 
29 The Balkans: You Don't Understand 
30 The Balkans: Dodging a Bullet 
31 Russia: The Hard-Liners Were Taking Over 
32 Russia's Slavonic Soul 
33 Ukraine: The Late-Autumn Sun 
Part Four: Foreign-Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, 1994-1998 
34 A Testing Time 
35 Anti-Personnel Land Mines 
36 The Awful State of His Health 
37 The Scorching Heat of the Italian Summer 
38 The Law of Unintended Consequences 
39 Killing the White Whale 
40 Running the Gauntlet 
41 The Referendum of 1995 
42 The Ambassador Goes Back 
43 Russia: Tchaikovsky's Funeral March 
44 Cuba: My Secret Mission 
45 Cuba: Chrétien Versus Castro 
46 Mother Teresa 
Part Five: The Beating, 1998-2002 
47 Burying the Past 
Part Six: The Queen's Representative in Ontario, 2002-2007 
48 Giving Back 
49 The Plight of First Nation Children 
Afterword 
Acknowledgements