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Library Lectures:
\nBook Launch of\u00a0The Calf With Two Heads<\/i>
\nby Louisa Blair<\/h1>\n
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Join us for the launch of Louisa Blair\u2019s book\u00a0The Calf With Two Heads<\/i> on Thursday, November 16 at 7 p.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"\u201cWow! I\u2019m impressed. Stop scrolling on your phones and have a look at this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Tomson Highway<\/strong>, Cree playwright, author, musician<\/p>\n

These beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men and women who crossed the oceans from Europe to explore, map, draw, puzzle about, collect and exhibit nature in Canada. Informed by French, British and Indigenous naturalists, they tried to understand what they saw. What did it all mean about the origins of the world?<\/p>\n

Louisa Blair, an amateur naturalist in Quebec and a transatlantic species herself, tells tales on Darwin, Russell Wallace, and James Cook, and lingers on the strange and colourful details of Canada\u2019s stubborn resistance to evolutionism and its first natural history museums with their penchant for deformities.\u00a0These stories feature Indigenous mapmakers, botanical artists, bug-bitten rock fanatics, arctic explorers, and a trio of Quebec women who managed to get plants named after themselves. In short, muddy boots, cold hands, a pocket full of fossils, a mind full of existential questions. To make her case, Louisa Blair has gathered a vast collection of vintage illustrations.\u00a0Blair also salutes their successors, the citizen scientists who are now frantically mapping Canada\u2019s biodiversity before it fades to bio-monotony. What does it all mean for the end of the world?<\/p>\n

NOTE: This event will be hybrid.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Register here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Louisa Blair<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer, editor and translator who was born in Quebec City, raised in the UK, and returned to live in Quebec 25 years ago. Her books in English include\u00a0The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Iron Bars and Bookshelves: A History of the Morrin Centre<\/em>. She has also translated numerous books and exhibitions about history, culture and politics in Quebec. Her translation of Robert Lepage\u2019s\u00a0887<\/em>\u00a0(House of Anansi Press, 2019) was nominated for a Governor General\u2019s prize. Her exhibition on natural history in Quebec, entitled\u00a0Blossoms, Beetles and Birds<\/em>, is on display at the Morrin Centre.<\/p>\n

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In partnership with Baraka Books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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