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I really don't think they wanted me to grow up. I wore a long, pageboy haircut and velvet shorts until I was 6 years old, scarcely appropriate for a small boy in a mining camp. More than anything, I wanted to wear long pants like most of my contemporaries, but these were denied me until I was twelve.

Pierre Berton

A true Canadian is one who can make love in a canoe without tipping it.

Pierre Berton

The march of social progress is like a long and straggling parade, with the seers and prophets at its head and a smug minority bringing up the rear.

Pierre Berton

But the Arctic chart memorializes more than men of rank, power, blood or property. The real immortals, whose names are sprinkled throughout the Arctic on bays and bights, capes and channels, are those who dared and sometimes died so that the map might take form.

Pierre Berton

According to accepted newspaper clichés, we all go down fighting. The other day I even read that an 18-month-old baby had died after a long battle with cancer. That has become the mandatory phrase for all who expire, disease-ridden. They battled valiantly; they lost. When I finally depart I hope somebody will write, instead, that I died after a long battle with life.

Pierre Berton

Pierre Berton

Pierre Berton

Born: July 12, 1920

Died: November 30, 2004 (aged 84)

Bio: Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist.

Known for:

The Last Spike (1971)
The Secret World of Og (1961)
The National Dream (1970)
The Invasion of Canada (1980)
Klondike (1958)

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