CANADA READS…

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Canada Reads. . . and so does Lennoxville 2024!

Hybrid event:

Join us in person at Hope Community Church (102 Queen st.)

OR

ON our YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM

Local presenters. Lively conversation and debate.

Featuring:

MASTER OF CEREMONIES: STEPHANIE BROWN

Bryan Laprise

Defending: Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Bryan is an avid reader and writer and strives to promote the arts at his school. He started and runs the student newspaper at Alexander Galt.

Elvina Koay

Defending: Shut Up You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji

Malaysian-Chinese, Elvina has called the Townships home for the last sixteen years. She teaches English literature at Champlain College. 

Marie Moliner

Defending: Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes & Christina Wong

Tri-lingual and raised in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Marie returned to the Townships during the pandemic after 4 decades of work in Toronto’s legal and cultural sectors. She retired early to care for the love of her life and is working on an illustrated novel: Defying the Dictator (that is Dementia): Diaries of an accidental caregiver. In her spare time she pounds clay and volunteers as an assistant editor for the Townships Sun.

Maurice J. O. Crossfield

Defending: The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou

Maurice is a fifth generation Townshipper who worked for nearly 15 years as a reporter at The Sherbrooke Record. His eclectic career path has included a stint as Editor in Chief at Harrowsmith, work as a translator and professional writer, and various occupations ranging from mechanic to organic gardener to truck driving. He lives in West Brome with his wife, musician Sarah Biggs, and a collection of dogs and cats.

Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt

Defending: Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt is the author of the critically acclaimed Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle East Memoir (Thistledown, 2021) and the poetry collection Chaos Theories of Goodness (Shoreline Press, 2022). She taught English literature at Champlain College Lennoxille for 18 years. Tanya holds an MA in English Literature from McGill University and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. She lives in North Hatley, QC.

All five books are available at the library. Reserve your copy today!

This year’s Canada Reads is made possible with financial support from Steve L. Elkas Funeral Homes and the Honorable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Member of Parliament for Compton-Stanstead.

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