Clive Doucet
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Clive Doucet is a Canadian writer and politician of Acadian descent.
Doucet lives in Ottawa, Ontario, where he is an Ottawa city councillor for Capital Ward, which includes The Glebe, Old Ottawa South, Old Ottawa East part of Riverview Park, Carleton University and Heron Park. 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.
In June 2006, Canadian publisher McClelland and Stewart listed Notes From Exile among the company's top 100 titles of all time.
Doucet is known to support the New Democratic Party.
His latest book, Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual, was published by New Society Publishers in 2007.[1]
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[edit] Fiction
- Disneyland Please, novel, 1978, shortlisted for the W.H. Smith First Novel Award
- John Coe's War, novel, 1983
- Gospel According to Mary Magdalene, novel, 1990
- The Priest's Boy, linked short stories, 1992
[edit] Non-Fiction
- 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 1960s.
- Lost and Found in Acadie (2004), a meditation on Acadian history, the Great Expulsion of 1755 and his visit to the Second Acadian World Congress in Louisiana in 1999.
- Notes from Exile, 1999 - profiles his visit to the 1994 First Acadian World Congress in New Brunswick.
- Acadian Memories, 2005 - collaboration with photographer Francois Gaudet, a coffee table book keepsake of the Third Acadian World Congress held in Ste Anne, Nova Scotia in 2004.
[edit] Poetry
- Before Star Wars, 1981
- Debris of Planets, 1993
- Looking for Henry, 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.
- Canal Seasons, 2003
[edit] Plays
- Hatching Eggs, National Arts Centre, 1976
- A Very Desirable Residence, Penguin Performance Company, 1978
- Chicken Delight, CBC Playhouse (radio), 1978
- May the Best Man Win
- The Chez Lucien is Dead (with Wayne Rostad)
[edit] Election results
1997
| Capital Ward (Ward 17) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Clive Doucet | 2,984 | 36.80 |
| Jim Kennelly | 2,051 | 25.29 |
| Robin Quinn | 1,571 | 19.37 |
| Ed Barter | 1,002 | 12.36 |
| David McNicoll | 501 | 6.18 |
2000
| Capital Ward (Ward 17) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Clive Doucet (X) | 6,486 | 69.51 |
| Jim Bickford | 2,845 | 30.49 |
2003
| Capital Ward (Ward 17) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Clive Doucet (X) | 5,785 | 80.06% |
| C.R.L. Erickson | 1,024 | 14.17% |
| Mike Salmon | 417 | 5.77% |
2006
| Capital Ward (Ward 17) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Clive Doucet (X) | 6,495 | 48.14% |
| Jay Nordenstrom | 4,602 | 34.11% |
| Ian Boyd | 1,963 | 14.55% |
| Sean Curran | 4,33 | 3.21% |
[edit] Notes
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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 |
