![]() The material spans his career as both a writer and a teacher. In the early 2000s, LAC acquired about 4.5 metres of material (both textual and graphic) created by MacLeod in Ontario and in Nova Scotia. ![]() Library and Archives Canada ( LAC) is lucky to be the repository for the Alistair MacLeod fonds. Although he produced a very small body of work in his lifetime, the quality of that work is outstanding. He was a slow and methodical writer, carefully considering every word. ![]() ![]() What gives MacLeod’s writing its power and its majesty is its lyricism: MacLeod often read his work out loud as a way to perfect the cadence of each line. MacLeod’s work examines the daily struggles of the people of Cape Breton Island. However, during his summer vacations, he and his family returned to the family home in Dunvegan (named for Dun Bheagan on the Isle of Skye in Scotland) where he had the opportunity to focus on his writing. Between the demands of being a full-time professor and a father to six children, he found it challenging to find time for his writing during the school year. MacLeod spent his career as an English and creative writing professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He used his income to pay for his education, earning both his undergraduate degree and teaching degree from St. Like many “Capers” before him, MacLeod spent his youth working as a miner and a logger. ![]() © Estate of Alistair MacLeod (e011213687) Front page of the manuscript for The Boat by Alistair MacLeod. ![]()
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