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Alfred Silver
Alfred Silver is a Canadian novelist and playwright. He grew up in the Canadian Prairies and now lives in Nova Scotia. His novel ''Acadia'' won the 1997 Thomas Head Raddall Award. Several of his radio plays have been aired by CBC Radio, including ''Göttingen'' (''Sunday Showcase''), ''Rebel Angels of Song'' (''Definitely Not the Opera'') and ''Clean Sweep'' (''The Mystery Project''), which was nominated for the 1998 Top Ten Award of the Writers Guild of Canada. Works *''A Place Out of Time''. Great Plains Fiction, 2007. *''Clean Sweep''. Pottersfield Press, 2004. *''Eulalie La Tour: Acadie 1755''. Trait d'union, 2004. *''Acadia: A Novel''. Pottersfield Press, 2004. *''Three Hills Home''. Nimbus Publishing, 2002. *''The Haunting of Maddie Prue''. Great Plains Publications, 2000. *''Acadia''. Ballantine/Random House, 1997. Winner of the 1997 Thomas Head Raddall Award. *''Keepers of the Dawn''. Ballantine/Random House, 1995. *''Where the Ghost Horse Runs''. Ballantine/Random Hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Prairies
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie Provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. These provinces are partially covered by grasslands, plains, and lowlands, mostly in the southern regions. The northernmost reaches of the Canadian Prairies are less dense in population, marked by forests and more variable topography. If the region is defined to include areas only covered by prairie land, the corresponding region is known as the Interior Plains. Physical or ecological aspects of the Canadian Prairies extend to northeastern British Columbia, but that area is not included in political use of the term. The prairies in Canada are a temperate grassland and shrubland biome within the prairie ecoregion of Canada that consists of northern mixed grasslands in Alberta, Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, as well as northern short grasslands in sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
