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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

The Village of the Small Houses

A Memoir of Sorts

by (author) Ian Ferguson

Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Initial publish date
Jul 2004
Category
Personal Memoirs
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781553650690
    Publish Date
    Jul 2004
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

In 1959, just one step ahead of the law, Ian Ferguson's parents left the sophisticated big-city life of Edmonton and ended up 846 km due north in Fort Vermilion, the third-poorest community in Canada. It was meant to be a temporary move. Like their neighbours, the Ferguson kids -- Ian and his six brothers and sisters -- grew up without indoor plumbing, central heating or electricity. In Village of the Small Houses, Ferguson has crafted a delightfully idiosyncratic account of growing up in the north.

About the author

Ian Ferguson won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his book Village of the Small Houses and is the co-author, with his brother Will Ferguson, of How to Be a Canadian, which was shortlisted for the Leacock and which won the CBA Libris Award for non-fiction. He was selected for inclusion in the Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour, was a contributing essayist to Me Funny, an anthology of Aboriginal humour, and has had his writing published in the Globe & Mail, the National Post, Reader’s Digest, Maclean’s, and EnRoute, among other publications. For the past ten years, he has worked as a writer and creative director in the film and television industry.

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Awards

  • Nominated, Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour