Canada Letter: Debating Sir John A. and a Remote Town Stranded<br />Read: Canadian Town, Isolated After Losing Rail Link, ‘Feels Held Hostage’ View: Suddenly Isolated, a Canadian Town Struggles The Times Book Review sat<br />down with Louise Penny, author of the crime novels featuring Armand Gamache, a police inspector in a fictional town in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.<br />It is United States trauma month: parental separation in Brooklyn in "The Squid<br />and the Whale," suburban Connecticut families facing societal upheaval in "The Ice Storm" and the Vietnam War in "The Deer Hunter." Read: The Best Movies and TV Shows New on Netflix Canada in September Mountain caribou are endangered in southern British Columbia.<br />And most of the tourists come during polar bear season: six weeks, starting in the middle of October, when polar bears are most<br />likely to be seen around town, waiting for the sea ice to bump against the shore so they can rush off in search of seals.<br />Read: Hunting Moose in Canada to Save Caribou From Wolves Read: Tree-Eating Beetles March Northward, Lured by Milder<br />Winters More than a decade ago, I worked with Clifford Krauss when he was The Times’s Toronto bureau chief.<br />Read: Canada, Too, Faces a Reckoning With History and Racism Churchill, Manitoba, is to polar bears as Kingston is to Macdonald.<br />A native of Windsor, Ontario, Ian Austen was educated in Toronto, lives in Ottawa<br />and has reported about Canada for The New York Times for over a decade.
