* Guy Vanderhaeghe-The Last Crossing

* The Last Crossing: Guy Vanderhaeghe

* Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.

Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM ( born April 5, 1951 ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his two Western novels, The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing, set in the 19th century American and Canadian West.

The Last Crossing ( 2002 ) was a national bestseller and winner of the Saskatoon Book Award, the Saskatchewan Book Awards for Fiction and for Book of the Year, and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year.

* The Last Crossing ( Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2002 ).

The Last Crossing is a novel by Canadian writer Guy Vanderhaeghe.

A rethinking of the genre of the " western ", The Last Crossing is a tale of interwoven lives and stories taking place in the last half of the 19th century, travelling from England to the United States and the Canadian west.

The Last Crossing eventually won the competition.

* The Last Crossing at McClelland & Stewart

* IMPAC Dublin Literary Award citation for The Last Crossing

His friendship with Leonard Cheshire led to his editing a slender volume providing an insight into Cheshire's spiritual resources during his struggle with the effects of motor neurone disease, entitled Crossing the Finishing Line – Last Thoughts of Leonard Cheshire VC ( 1998, ISBN 0-85439-527-X, see pp. 7 – 14, 80 ).

Also Rodin was inspired by Delacroix's painting Dante and Virgil Crossing the Styx, Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, Honoré de Balzac's book La Comedié Humaine, and Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal.

Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

Last year's volume was at the top a couple of inches below the ceiling.

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.

Her subject was large -- a copy of the Last Supper -- and her canvas, small -- the head of a tiny screw.

The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

The Last Day: Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven, over which He rules, to a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

Wiles discovered Fermat's Last Theorem on his way home from school when he was 10 years old.

In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of The Last Castle, featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.

The Durrani Empire (, also referred to as the Last Afghan Empire ) was founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani with its capital at Kandahar, Afghanistan.

He published them as Last Poems ( 1922 ) because he felt his inspiration was exhausted and that he should not publish more in his lifetime.

Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( published October 2001 ) at the time of her death.

The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii ) and other somewhat notable ( and moneyed ) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888.

Last census was in May 2011.

Director Bryan Singer stated at the 2006 Comic-Con that he favored the three-persona concept, stating that there was Clark Kent on the farm, the bumbling Metropolis Clark, and Superman, the Last Son of Krypton.

Brandon Routh himself stated, in an HBO First Look interview that he was playing three characters ; Clark Kent, the reporter / farm boy ; Superman, the protagonist and savior of Metropolis ; and Kal-El, the Last Son of Krypton.

In 2009, Anderson was the television host of the BBC's Last Night of the Proms.

Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall.

A few concert recordings followed, and The Last Time We Saw Paris ( 1967 ) was the " Classic " Quartet's swan-song.

The defining event of the Stone wing of the movement was the publication of the Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery, at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1804.

Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release.

In common, with another important Monty Python predecessor, At Last the 1948 Show, many episodes were wiped as was common practice at the time due to the lack of any apparent market for them prior to the invention of home video.

Last, it makes no sense to deliver Katanga, the one reasonably solid territory, into the existing chaos.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

Abbaton is also said to have a prominent role in the Last Judgement, as the one who will take the souls to the Valley of Josaphat.

Last, climbers often have one or more spotters, who work to direct the climber's body toward the crash pad during a fall, while protecting the climber's head from hazards.

* The Great Auk is the subject of a novel, The Last Great Auk by Allen Eckert, which tells of the events leading to the extinction of the Great Auk as seen from the perspective of the last one alive.

* Iceman is one of the three playable characters in X-Men: The Official Game ( which fills in the gap between X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand ) voiced by Shawn Ashmore ( the same actor who played him in the films ).

Retitled Remember Last Night ?, the film was one of Whale's personal favorites, but met with sharply divided reviews and commercial disinterest.

* Kim Philby appears as one of the central antagonists in William F. Buckley Jr's 2004 novel Last Call for Blackford Oakes.

TVSquad ranked Shatner's " Get a life " sketch alongside " The Last Voyage ..." as one of the most famous parodies of the show.

The Ordinance of Humility is meant to symbolize Christ's washing of his disciples ' feet at the Last Supper and remind participants of the need to humbly serve one another.

Rolling Stone magazine named Night of the Living Dead one of The 100 Maverick Movies in the Last 100 Years.

* DTS 14 – Last Page from the Book of Mazarbul, Last Line, this and the above one originally prepared for inclusion in The Lord of the Rings

There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.

The Last Judgement, one of the themes repeated throughout the Lenten season ( 12th-century mosaic icon, Torcello cathedral ).

* The Last Picture Show ( one solo commentary, and one with actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall )

Peter Weir's 1977 Australian film " The Last Wave " makes a simple and straightforward postulate about the premonitory nature of dreams ( from one of his Aboriginal characters ) that "... dreams are the shadow of something real ".

After one more film role as an aging doctor in The Last Angry Man ( 1959 ), for which he was again nominated for an Oscar, his failing eyesight and other health problems forced him to retire from acting.

The construction of this castle between 1268 and 1271 by Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford | Gilbert de Clare led to a dispute between Llywelyn the Last and the English crown, one of the issues which led to the wars of 1277 and 1282 and the end of Welsh independence

Later authors sometimes mistakenly or deliberately treated the Grail story as truth — John of Glastonbury, who assembled a chronicle of the history of Glastonbury Abbey around 1350, claims that when Joseph came to Britain, he brought with him a wooden cup used in the Last Supper and two cruets, one holding the blood of Christ, and the other his sweat, washed from his wounded body on the Cross.

On CNN's " Out in the Open ," Rick Sanchez characterized the word without using it by saying, " Last night, we showed you a clip of one of his supporters calling Hillary Clinton the b-word that rhymes with witch.

Two editions of The Last Man were published by Henry Colburn in London in 1826, and one edition in Paris in 1826 by Galignani.

The Last Man received the worst reviews of all of Mary Shelley's novels: most reviewers derided the very theme of lastness, which had become a common one in the previous two decades.

Nonetheless, she later spoke of The Last Man as one of her favourite works.