Clive Doucet
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Clive Doucet is a Canadian writer and politician of Acadian descent.
In 2005 he published Acadian Memories, a collaboration with photograher Francois Gaudet. This coffee-table book is a keepsake of the Third Acadian World Congress held in Ste Anne, Nova Scotia in 2004. His 1999 Canadian bestseller Notes From Exile profiles his visit to the 1994 First Acadian World Congress in New Brunswick. His other books include Lost and Found in Acadie (2004), a meditation on Acadian history, the Great Expulsion,1755 and his visit to the Second Acadian World Congress in Louisiana in 1999; Canal Seasons (2003), his fourth collection of poetry; My Grandfather's Cape Breton (originally 1980, republished in 2003), a memoir of summer boyhood visits to his grandfather on the family farm on Cape Breton Island in the 1960's; Looking for Henry, poetry, 1999, an epic poem meditating on the deportation of Acadians in 1755 contrasted to the defeat of the Metis Nation in 1885, and how the victors get to write history.
In June 2006, Canadian publisher McClelland and Stewart listed Notes From Exile among the company's top 100 titles of all time. Their list also includes Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and four titles by Margaret Atwood.
In the spring of 2007 New Society Publishers [1] will publish Mr. Doucet's new book Urban Meltdown:Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual.
Out of Print titles. Disneyland Please, novel, 1978, shortlisted for the W.H. Smith First Novel Award; Before Star Wars, poetry, 1981; John Coe's War, novel, 1983; Gospel According to Mary Magdalene, novel, 1990; The Priest's Boy, linked short stories, 1992; Debris of Planets, poetry, 1993.
Plays produced. Hatching Eggs, National Arts Centre, Ottawa,1976; A Very Desirable Residence, Penguin Performance Company, Ottawa??, 1978; Chicken Delight, CBC Playhouse (radio), 1978; May the Best Man Win,??; The Chez Lucien is Dead (with Wayne Rostad), ??.
Doucet lives in Ottawa, Ontario, where he is a city councillor for Capital Ward, which includes The Glebe, Old Ottawa South [2], Old Ottawa East [3], part of Riverview Park, Carleton University[4] and Heron Park [5]. Central to his political platform is the creation of a light rail rapid transit system across Ottawa manifested to date with the Ottawa O-Train demonstration project.
Doucet is known to support the New Democratic Party Official Site
See also: 2003 Ottawa election
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| Preceded by: Brian McGarry |
Regional councillors from Capital Ward 1997-2000 |
Succeeded by: Position abolished |
| Preceded by: Inez Berg |
City councillors from Capital Ward 2000-present |
Succeeded by: Incumbent |
