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Christopher D. Patton
Christopher Patton (born 1969) is a Canadian poet. Patton received a $10,000 writing grant from the Canada Council for the Arts in 1998, and has written at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Characteristic subjects in Patton's writing include nature, spiritual experience, the connection between those two, and what it means to see. His poetry has been published in literary journals such as '' The Paris Review'', '' The Antioch Review'', ''Western Humanities Review'', '' FIELD'', and ''The Fiddlehead''. Some of his poems were published in ''The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry'' (Carmine Starnino, 2006). Patton's children's book ''Jack Pine'', illustrated by Cybèle Young, was published in July 2007 by Groundwood Books. In 2008 the Vancouver Opera commissioned a children's opera based on ''Jack Pine'', to be performed by the Vancouver Opera in Schools touring ensemble. The opera, composed by British Columbian songwriter Veda Hille Veda Hille (born August 11, 1968) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
