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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Since 1976 this is my seventh book and my fourth oral history (sometimes called social history) of the Ottawa Valley. The thrust of all of them has been to make everyone everywhere aware of the unique nature of the Ottawa Valley. For truly the Ottawa Valley is a metaphoric island with a separate identity that distinguishes it from all other parts of Canada. The Ottawa Valley accent and idiom; its predominantly Irish origin; its geography and ethnography; its history and “frozen economics”; its lumbering sagas and log architecture; its folk tales songs music and dance; its “come-all-ye’s” and fiddlin’ good times; its elusively different people; its astounding network of clans – all have melded together to make the Valley today unlike any other place on the Canadian landscape. Just as the “Men Who Went Down to the Sea” gave Newfoundland its individual regional quality so the “Men Who Went into the Bush” gave the Valley its basic differentiating characteristics. The Ottawa Valley was the cradle of hockey for all of North America. A rich vein of humour as overt as the Laurentian Shield runs through the Valley giving it its reputation for joie de vivre and producing people whose sense of humour is a large and important part of their philosophy of life. Technically speaking the Ottawa Valley is the watershed of the Ottawa River a mighty and ancient central continental waterway rising in Lake Capimichigama about 145 miles due north of the capital city. Beginning as a small stream out of that lake taking its curving and convoluted course swelling and broadening as it goes the Ottawa travels some seven hundred miles to join the St. Lawrence River just west of Montreal. (SP)