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For nearly four decades, journalist Ernest Hillen travelled from coast to coast in his adopted country of Canada and throughout the wider world, crafting stories that were sometimes amusing, occasionally bleak, often poignant-and always memorable. A Memoir in Pieces gathers together some of his favourites. Here you will meet a Montreal-born mercenary soldier who declares "I like to fight. Once you've tasted blood, you want more." You'll sit do...

In the early 1970s, journalist Ernest Hillen crisscrossed Canada writing stories for Weekend Magazine. His remarkable reporting on the "ordinary" people he encountered was a mainstay in the popular Saturday supplement in newspapers coast to coast, reaching more than 2 million readers. These snapshots of life in often far-flung parts of Canada are evoked with extraordinary empathy, respect, and humour by a writer who had himself experienced th...