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Victoria: Demers to De Roo

by (author) Patrick Jamieson

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 1997
Category
Catholic, History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781896860275
    Publish Date
    Sep 1997
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896860268
    Publish Date
    Sep 1997
    List Price
    $22.95

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Jamieson evokes the first 150 years of the Diocese of Victoria with a sensitivity for the symbolic, an eye for patterns and an ear for the rhythmic repetitions of history. In Victoria: Demers to De Roo he assesses the Diocese many see as a model of the spirit of the Second Vatican Council.

About the author

Patick Jamieson was born in Vancouver in 1947 to a military family of six children. He began writing professionally in the 1970s and was appointed the first lay editor of the influential Prairie Messenger in 1981. He has lived all across Canada, including the Maritimes, where the poems contained in The Gray Door were composed between 1983-86. Trained as a social animator in the hey day of the Sixties, Jamieson discovered his voice as a poet with this work. He returned to the west coast in 1986 and founded the independent newspaper Island Catholic News. He has made his living, such as it is, working in Catholic church communications since 1978. Jamieson has a series of novels in the works based on his experience of small Canadian cities including Victoria, Fredericton, Saskatoon and Sydney, Cape Breton. Partrick Jamieson now lives in Victoria, and three grown daughters live in Saskatoon.

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