{"product_id":"paper-trails-from-the-backwoods-to-the-front-page-a-life-in-stories-hardcover","title":"Paper Trails: From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoy MacGregor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Canada's greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people--what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since.\u003cbr\u003e From his early days in the pages of \u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/i\u003e, to stints at the \u003ci\u003eToronto Star, Ottawa Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e and most famously from his perch on page two of the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, MacGregor was one of the country's must-read journalists. While news media were leaning increasingly right or left, he always leaned north, his curiosity trained by the deep woods and cold lakes of Algonquin Park to share stories from Canada's farthest reaches, even as he worked in the newsrooms of its southern capitols. From Parliament to the backyard rink, subarctic shores to prairie expanses, MacGregor shaped the way Canadians saw and thought about themselves--never entirely untethered from the land and its history.\u003cbr\u003e When MacGregor was still a young editor at \u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/i\u003e, the 21-year-old chief of the Waskaganish (aka Rupert's House) Crees, Billy Diamond, found in Roy a willing listener as the chief was appealing desperately to newsrooms across Ottawa, trying to bring attention to the tainted-water emergency in his community. Where other journalists had shrugged off Diamond's appeals, MacGregor got on a tiny plane into northern Quebec. From there began a long friendship that would one day lead MacGregor to a Winnipeg secret location with Elijah Harper and his advisors, a host of the most influential Indigenous leaders in Canada, as the Manitoba MPP contemplated the Charlottetown Accord and a vote that could shatter what seemed at the time the country's last chance to save Confederation. \u003cbr\u003e This was the sort of exclusive access to vital Canadian stories that Roy MacGregor always seemed to secure. And as his ardent fans will discover, the observant small-town boy turned pre-eminent journalist put his rare vantage point to exceptional use. Filled with reminiscences of an age when Canadian newsrooms were populated by outsized characters, outright rogues and passionate practitioners, the unputdownable \u003ci\u003ePaper Trails \u003c\/i\u003eis a must-read account of a life lived in stories.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eROY MACGREGOR is the acclaimed and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHome Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award); \u003ci\u003eA Life in the Bush\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the US Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and bestsellers \u003ci\u003eNorthern Light, Canoe Country \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOriginal Highways\u003c\/i\u003e; as well as two novels, \u003ci\u003eCanoe Lake\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Season\u003c\/i\u003e, and the popular Screech Owls mystery series for young readers. A longtime columnist for the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eand numerous other newspapers and magazines, MacGregor won four National Magazine Awards and two National Newspaper Awards. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was described in the citation as one of Canada's \"most gifted storytellers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.46 x 9.22 x 6.33 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42155668144263,"sku":"9781039000735","price":28.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/56c5b8cd4f0631495c87bea3ca21d402.webp?v=1733237861","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/paper-trails-from-the-backwoods-to-the-front-page-a-life-in-stories-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}