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A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home

por Alan Doyle

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Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island.      Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between--opening for Barney the Dinosaur at an outdoor music festival, being propositioned at a gas station mail-order bride service in Alberta, drinking moonshine with an elderly church-goer on a Sunday morning in PEI--Alan's few established notions about Canada were often debunked and his own identity as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Asked to play in front of the Queen at a massive Canada Day festival on Parliament Hill, the concert organizers assured Alan and his bandmates that the best way to showcase Newfoundland culture was for them to be towed onto stage in a dory and introduced not as Newfoundlanders but as "Newfies." The boys were not amused.      Heartfelt, funny and always insightful, these stories tap into the complexities of community and Canadianness, forming the portrait of a young man from a tiny fishing village trying to define and hold on to his sense of home while navigating a vast and diverse and wonder-filled country.… (mais)
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A lovely read from one of the members of my favourite bands. Really liked how Alan took us on a journey across Canada, providing anecdotes along the way on the journey of GBS. ( )
  Acilladon | Jul 30, 2023 |
I really enjoyed his first book, and was eager to listen to his new one while roadtripping back from Denver. The first one was fun and amusing. This one was hilarious! Doyle weaves stories of touring with Great Big Sea in their early days together to show Newfoundland's uncomfortable and relatively new place in Canada, and how he discovered the country he was born into.

And the stories he told had me laughing as I drove the long drive back home. I don't think I"ll ever forget the entire chapter with the airplane and baby. I think I had a look of absolute horror the entire time.

Doyle's got a magic touch with words. It shows here. He weaves together a narrative and paints the scenes so vividly, I could picture everything in my mind. ( )
  wisemetis | Sep 13, 2022 |
In this volume, Doyle writes about what it was like to tour Canada in the early years of Great Big Sea. His first trip to the mainland was to do a gig in Halifax. He took the ferry from Newfoundland to Sydney, NS and after that experience has never taken the ferry since. His first impressions of Nova Scotia and its differences from Newfoundland are priceless.

There are many humourous anecdotes of life crossing Canada in a van with four other fellows as well as some conflicts. A memorable one of the latter is the Queen's Protocol officer asking to have the word drawers changed in the song "Auntie Mary" to pantyhose since drawers was an unsuitable word to be sung in front of the Queen.

As with his first book, "Where I Belong" the tone is light and funny and full of personal observations about life in Newfoundland and Canada. One definitely receives a good grounding on life on the road with a band struggling to survive until it makes it to the big time. ( )
  lamour | Dec 7, 2017 |
A Newfoundlander in Canada picks up where 2014’s “Where I Belong” leaves off. “Alan Doyle of Petty Harbour” sets off on a wicked road trip to Canada with his Great Big Sea bandmates. The book is full of stories of grand adventures in Newfoundland and across Canada. Highlights include Great Big Sea’s first night playing in the Horseshoe Tavern, two gross of Easter cream eggs, a Bug on Woody Island, and parties - lots of parties, parties in bars, in a shed on a frozen lake, in elevators. Doyle takes time in the journey though to reflect on each province’s relationship with Newfoundland, and along the way plays a large part in changing Canadians’ perceptions of Newfoundlanders. Through it all, as his mother says “Alan is playing in the band and happy as anything.” ( )
  Lindsay_W | Nov 19, 2017 |
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Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island.      Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between--opening for Barney the Dinosaur at an outdoor music festival, being propositioned at a gas station mail-order bride service in Alberta, drinking moonshine with an elderly church-goer on a Sunday morning in PEI--Alan's few established notions about Canada were often debunked and his own identity as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Asked to play in front of the Queen at a massive Canada Day festival on Parliament Hill, the concert organizers assured Alan and his bandmates that the best way to showcase Newfoundland culture was for them to be towed onto stage in a dory and introduced not as Newfoundlanders but as "Newfies." The boys were not amused.      Heartfelt, funny and always insightful, these stories tap into the complexities of community and Canadianness, forming the portrait of a young man from a tiny fishing village trying to define and hold on to his sense of home while navigating a vast and diverse and wonder-filled country.

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