Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue

Kahnawake on the shore of the St Laurence across from Montreal. The North Shore of Vancouver. The Bow River shoreline in downtown Calgary. Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. These are a few of the vantages from which Norman Ravvin looks beyond contemporary urban and rural landscapes to uncover past and once-possible Canadas, lost voices and vanished ways of living that are made recognizable once again. Through interviews, careful research and a good many miles burning up the roadways, Norman Ravvin offers a view of this country as never seen before.

Norman Ravvin's books include Cafe des Westens; Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish; and A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory. He also edited Great Stories of the Sea and co-edited The Canadin Jewish Studies Reader with Richard Mennkis. He has taught literature and creative writing at the universities of Toronto and New Brunswick. Presently, he is Chair of Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.