![]() ![]() Ten-year-old Roch Carrier appears on the Wikipedia page wearing a hockey sweater, years before he authored the story as an adult, and on the backs of our five-dollar bills, children still love to play hockey, just as he did as a boy. ![]() ![]() Small number of pages, but a very big deal.Īnd that line between fiction and reality is blurred once more. Or, wait, there’s more: ECW Press published This Sweater Is For You! by Sheldon Cohen this year, which considers the creative process in illustrating and animating “The Hockey Sweater”. Or, you could read the story, either in Tundra Books’ illustrated version (artwork by Sheldon Cohen, a Jewish anglophone who was a terrible hockey player) or in this reprinted edition of Roch Carrier’s stories, part of House of Anansi’s A List appearing this autumn. If this is all new to you, you can watch the NFB film online (it’s about 10 minutes long) or The Canadian Museum of Civilization has a neat exhibit which includes some audio clips and photographs: these will fill in the gaps. ![]() That’s how central this story, only four pages long, is to Canadians.Ī short story about hockey, a 10-year-old French-Canadian boy’s crowning disappointment, and the cultural tensions between anglophones and francophones: on our money. ![]()
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